510. Suppose you were to agree at the beginning of the season to sell your fish to another than Mr. Tulloch, would you have any difficulty in getting credit at his store for your supplies?-He would not like that very well. 511. Would you not get your supplies there?-No, not unless the man who asked them was one he was well acquainted with. 512. Would you be able to get them anywhere else?-I don't know. I don't think I would try to get them, unless at the place I was sending my fish to. 513. But if you had not the money yourself, would you get credit for your supplies during the summer from any other shopkeeper, either in Lerwick or Cunningsburgh?-Yes. All the fish-merchants we deal with in Lerwick I can get a little credit from up to the present day. 514. And in that way you are not bound over to Mr. Tulloch in any way?-No. We can leave him this season if we have a mind. 515. You were to say something about the herring fishing: I thought there was not much herring fishing here?-There will be nothing at all this season in Shetland. We generally fished to Messrs. Hay & Co. when we were in it. 516. Have you any complaint to make about it?-Much the same as about the ling fishing The don't like to give a stated price. 517. Where do you deliver the fish when you go to the herring fishing?-There is a small ghioe* close by our own place at Cunningsburgh. Hay & Co. send down a cooper there, and they have a booth for their stores close by. 518. What is the bargain you make with them about that?-They generally wish us to go to the fishing, and they will pay us accordingly. 519. What do you do about a boat?-We use the same boat as we have in the ling fishing. 520. Then your only complaint about the herring fishery is, that you don't know the price until settling time?-Yes. But there has been no herring fishery on the island at all this season, to speak of. 521. Do you require advances of money at all during the season?- We are often in want of a few shillings. 522. How do you get that?-The man we are dealing with just now (Mr. Tulloch) has never said no, so far as what we asked was reasonable. I got an advance of £2 from him last season to buy a cow. We were out of milk that season, and he did not refuse me the money when I asked it. 523. Do you get advances from Messrs. Hay also when you need it?-1 don't think they are so very frank about that, and I don't like to ask it; but they will give us any small thing we need from their shops. * <Gio>-A deep ravine which admits the sea.-<Edmonstone's Glossary>. 524. Do they supply you with goods also?-Yes. 525. Where is their store from which you get the goods?-There is their shop in town. 526. Do you come to Lerwick for them?-Yes. 527. Do you run an account there?-Sometimes we do, and sometimes not; but we have not much to do with Messrs. Hay on that footing.