1368. Do they go into Lerwick to sell the articles they have made?-They do. 1369. To whom do they sell them?-To anybody; they do not knit for a merchant. They go to any merchant they choose and sell their shawls, because the worsted with which they are made is their own. If they go into one store with the shawl, and the price is not suitable, they go into the next one. 1370. How are they paid for their shawls?-They are paid in goods at any store where they can sell them. 1371. Do they ever ask for money?-They have asked for it often, but they have never got it; and therefore they say there is no use asking for it, because they know they won't get it. 1372. Are you satisfied with the value of the goods they get in exchange for their shawls?-Sometimes, but not always. Sometimes the goods which they get [Page 28] in exchange are not worth the value put upon them. Sometimes they get cottons for 10d. which are not worth above 8d. 1373. How do you know that?-Because I see the quality of them. 1374. Have they told you the price which the merchant has charged for them?-Yes; and sometimes when my daughters have knitted a shawl, and it is ready to go to the dresser, there may be no money in the house to pay for the dressing of it, and it has to be paid in money. I have known my daughters detained in that way for some days, until I went to a neighbour and borrowed a shilling to pay for the dressing of the shawl, or until I could sell something off the farm; and then, when the shawl was dressed, they went to the merchant with it and sold it to him for goods, according to the custom. 1375. Can your daughters not dress the shawls themselves?-No; they are shawl-makers, but not shawl-dressers. Their dresser is Mrs. Arcus, at the Docks. 1376. Is she the only dresser here?-No; there are other dressers than her, but she is the only one that my daughters go to. 1377. Would she not give them credit for the dressing?-No. 1378. She always requires ready money for that?-Yes; she might give credit to a girl living in the town, but I live sixteen miles from Lerwick, and she would not give credit to a party living at that distance. 1379. How long have your daughters knitted?-A long time now. There is one of them twenty-seven years of age, and she has knitted since she was about eighteen. 1380. Have you ever seen your daughters bring home money for their knitting?-No; I never saw a shilling come into our house in my life which had been got for a shawl. I have paid out several shillings for the dressing of the shawls but I never saw any money given in for them. 1381. Is there anything more you wish to say?-No. Lerwick, January 3, 1872, GAVIN COLVIN, examined. 1382. Are you a fisherman?-Yes. 1383. Where?-In Levenwick, Sandwick parish. 1384. Was the ground there held in tack by Robert Mouat at one time?-Yes. 1385. How long have you been there?-I have been there all my life.