927. To whom would you have an opportunity of selling your fish cured?-We could them to any one who would give us the most for them. 928. Are there people there who would buy them from you?-Yes, there are plenty of merchants in Shetland or in the south country who would come and buy them; and we would have a chance of sending them south at our own risk, or to our own advantage. 929. Has any one in Burra ever cured his own fish?-No; I believe no one has ever done so since Burra rose out of the water. 930. Has any one near Burra done so?-Havera is near Burra, and belongs to the same parish, and I cured my own fish there. 931. Why did you leave Havera and go to Burra?-Havera is a very small island, and it became too strait for me. 932. The population was increasing too rapidly?-Yes. 933. Had you not a holding of your own there?-No; I got married, and had to look out for a holding somewhere; and I was, by the law of necessity, compelled to move against my will. 934. Are there any dealers in Scalloway who would buy your fish from you if you were allowed to sell them?-Yes; there are Charles Nicholson and Robert Tait. 935. Do they buy fish cured?-They buy them either cured or uncured, and also what may be properly called half-cured-that is, salted but not dried. 936. Do they employ fishermen?-Charles Nicholson employs fishermen. 937. Do the fishermen who are employed by Nicholson and Tait supply their fish to them green or dry, as they like?-They only give them to them green, so far as I know. 938. But these merchants also buy cured fish from independent fishermen?-Yes. 939. With regard to your farm, do you sell any produce off your land?-We sell none. 940. What does it bear?-Oats and barley, or bere, and potatoes or turnips, and some cabbage. 941. Do you sell these things, or do you consume them yourselves?-We consume them either by ourselves, or by the stock on our farm. We have some cattle and sheep and pigs . 942. Do you sell your stock?-The cattle are generally sold to relieve the tenant's necessities, and in order to let him have a few shillings in money. 943. What is that money used for? Is it for things that you cannot buy in the store?-Yes; and sometimes for paying our rent. 944. I thought the rent was entered as part of your account with Messrs. Hay?-If our earnings are not sufficient to meet Messrs. Hay's account, or if we have overdrawn our account with them, then we sell an animal, and the price of it is put into the account. 945. Is there anything else for which you have to sell your cattle?-I am not aware of anything. 946. How do you sell them? Is it at a roup or at a public market?-We sell our cattle where we can dispose of them to the best advantage-sometimes at the market at Lerwick, and at other times cattle-dealers come round and ask us for them. If we choose to give them to the dealers, we have every advantage in selling our cattle. 947. You are quite free to sell them where you like-Yes.