1269. Had Mouat a shop?-Yes; his shop was at the Moul of Channerwick, close to my house. 1270. Are there many fishermen living close by there?-There are a good many, and almost all men are fishermen. 1271. Do they live near that shop?-Yes. 1272. How many houses may be there, or about that neighbourhood?-I think there are about nineteen of them close together. 1273. Are there many more houses at a little distance?-There are no more at that particular place, but in the town of Levenwick, about a mile to the south of the Moul, there are more. 1274. Is there another shop there?-No. 1275. Do the Levenwick people come to the Channerwick shop?- Yes. 1276. What did you get in Mouat's shop?-We got the goods he pleased to give us. 1277. Did you get the goods you wanted?-No; we did not get the goods we wanted. We could just get the goods he had. 1278. What did you get?-We sometimes got a [Page 26] little tea and cotton and anything we asked for that was there. If it was there for us to get it was very well; but if it was not there, we had to walk home without, and we could get no money to buy it with. 1279. How could you get no money?-Because he would not give it to us on any consideration at all. 1280. Did you often ask for?-Every year and every time. 1281. What do you mean by every time?-Every time we came to that store when we thought his goods were not a bargain for us to take we asked for some money to go somewhere else and get a better bargain; but of course we were denied it. We could get none. 1282. Did you never get an advance of money from the time the fishing began, until settling time?-No. 1283. Did you ever get any money from Mouat during the whole seventeen years you fished for him?-No. 1284. Did you not get money if there was, a balance over at settling time?-No. 1285. Do you swear that?-Yes, I do. 1286. Supposing that at the time of settling there was a balance due to you after paying your account at the shop and your rent did you not get, that in money?-No. I had to take it in goods or else go without. 1287. Were you told that you must take it in goods?-Yes; I could get no money. 1288. Did you generally take goods there and then or did you get them afterwards just as you wanted them?-Sometimes I got them as I wanted them and at other times I might take a little goods expecting that I would perhaps get a shilling of money along with them as I was in necessity for it; but I could not get any. 1289. Did you expect that you might get a shilling for the goods?-As I had a balance due I expected that I might get a shilling in money; and I did not take all the goods at one time but I took a little now when I required them, and a little the next time; and always when I came to the store I asked if I could not get a shilling in money because goods could not serve me every time. 1290. Did you sell the goods which you got from the shop in order to raise a little money?-Sometimes.