586. Have you known of any person being warned off the ground for not dealing at the store?-No; there is no compulsion about that. We have liberty to deal at any place we like; but when our credit is cut off the way I have mentioned, there is no use in having that liberty. 587. You say your credit is cut off because you are compelled to fish for the landlord?-Yes. 588. Therefore that is virtually compulsion to deal at the store: is that what you mean to say?-Yes; of course it comes to that. Suppose we have liberty to deal at any place we like, still if a man does not have money his credit is cut off with any other merchant, so that he must deal at the landlord's store. 589. When you deliver your fish, do you get any money that you want?-Yes. Mr. Bruce always gave me money when I wanted it, if he had money of mine in his hands; indeed he always gave me what money I asked, whether I had any to get or not. I always found him very generous in that way. 590. Therefore, whenever you wanted money for your fish you got it, even although it was a long time before settling day?-Yes; Mr. Bruce will give money at any time throughout the whole season, especially to men that he knows have it to get. [Page 12] 591. You have no complaint to make about that?-No. 592. The fishing, I understand, begins in April?-Yes. 593. And when does it end?-About September. 594. Suppose you wanted to draw all the money, or about all the money, that was due to you in August or September, is it likely that you would get it?-If I did not have very much to get, perhaps I might get it all, or perhaps more; but if I did have much to get, I don't think he would be inclined to give it all. 595. If you wanted anything, and could not get the money, would you be obliged to take the goods out of his store?-Of course if I could not get money from him, and was requiring the goods, I had no other chance than taking them from the store. 596. If you wanted a supply of provisions or clothing, you would have to get them there?-Yes. 597. Do you get both provisions and clothes at the store?-There is not much clothing there. 598. Where do you get the rest of your clothing?-At any place where we can get it cheapest when we can have a few shillings in hand. 599. Where are the other stores in that district?-There is a man, Mr. Gavin Henderson, who has a store about four or five miles from us; and I believe he generally sells things at as cheap a rate as they can be got in the country. 600. Have you dealt at his store?-Yes; occasionally. 601. Do you find the goods that you get from Henderson to be cheaper than those in Mr. Bruce's store?-Yes; they are cheaper than we can get them at any other place. 602. Give me an instance of that: have you bought meal at both places?-No, I have not bought meal from there. 603. What have you bought at Henderson's store?-I have sometimes bought leather for making boots and shoes. 604. Do you not buy your shoes ready-made?-No.