1410. Could you not get it fixed then, if you asked for it?-We have asked for it, but we have never got it yet. 1411. Who did you ask it from?-From the dealers we were fishing to, all along. 1412. But you have fished for no dealers except Mouat and Robertson?-No. 1413. Have you asked them to fix the price before?-Yes. 1414. Did they refuse your request?-Yes. They refused to state a price then, and said they would give the currency of the country at the end of the season. 1415. Have you asked them to pay for the fish as they were delivered?-No; I never asked them for that. Lerwick, January 3, 1872, CATHERINE PETRIE, examined. 1416. You come from the island of Fetlar?-Yes. 1417. Where do you live there?-In Aithness. 1418. Are you a married woman?-No. 1419. Do you live with your people?-Yes. 1420. Are you in the habit of knitting?-Yes. 1421. What do you knit?-Fine shawls and veils. 1422. Do you knit these articles with your own wool?-Yes. 1423. Do you make your own worsted, or buy it?-I buy wool, and make it. 1424. Where do you buy it?-From any person who sells it. There is a Mrs. Smith in Fetlar who sells wool. She lives at a place called Smithfield. 1425. Has she a shop?-No. They formerly had shop, but they don't have one now. She is a widow 1426. Has she any land?-Yes; she has a small farm. She has some sheep, and she obliges any person with wool who wants it. 1427. Do you always buy your wool from her?-[Page 29] Sometimes from her, and sometimes from any merchant I can get it from. 1428. Do you pay for it in money?-Yes; or in work. 1429. What kind of work?-Any kind of household work that they have to do. People employ others to do so much work, and give them wool for it. 1430. Do you mean work on their farms or ground-Yes; and they will give them wool in return, because the wool in Fetlar is so scarce. 1431. You knit on your own account, and sell what you knit?- Yes. 1432. Do you sell it to merchants in Fetlar?-No. There are no merchants in Fetlar who take it. I come down to Lerwick with it once a year. 1433. Do you then bring in with you all that you have knitted during the season?-Yes. 1434. How much will you bring?-It is not much; perhaps two or three shawls. I have had as high as five shawls when I came down. We have household work to attend to, and we cannot knit so fast as they do here in Lerwick. 1435. It is just part of your time that you can give?-Yes. 1436. Have you come down just now for the purpose of selling the articles you have knitted?-Yes. 1437. How many shawls did you bring with you this year?-Two. 1438. That is less than usual?-Yes. 1439. How do you get paid for your shawls?-I get goods out of the shop. 1440. Does the merchant fix the price 'for the shawl' when you take it in?-Yes. 1441. How much did you get for the two you brought down this time?-16s. for one, and 17s. for the other; and I had one belonging to another person that I got 19s. for.