1546. What did you do with the 14s. that you got for the shawls from Miss Leisk?-It would go for worsted to make other things. 1547. Have you always to pay money for your worsted?-Yes. 1548. You don't get provisions, either meal or bread, at the shops where you sell your shawls?-No. 1549. Is that never done in Lerwick?-No; I never had it done to me. Those who buy the shawls keep nothing of that kind. 1550. Would you be content to take a lower price [Page 31] for your shawls if you were paid for them in money instead of goods?-Yes. 1551. Have the merchants ever offered you a lower price for your shawls in money?-No. 1552. Have you ever asked them to do that, or tried to get them to do it?-I knew that I need not try that, because I would not have got it. 1553. Do you manage to sell many of your shawls privately in the town, or to visitors in the summer?-No. 1554. Is there not a good deal of that done in Lerwick?-I believe some people do that, but I don't do it. 1555. Is it not an advantage to get them sold in that way?-Yes; I think it would be an advantage to get ready money. 1556. Do charitable ladies sometimes take the shawls-and get them sold to their friends at a distance?-I can say nothing about that, because I never sold them in that way. 1557. Do you give receipts for the goods or money which you get as the price of your shawls?-No. 1558. The transaction is all done across the counter, without any writing?-Yes. 1559. Do you know whether the shopkeeper enters the price of the shawls, and the amount of the goods sold to you in return for them, in any book? Do you see whether that is done?-No, I don't see it. 1560. You have never noticed that?-No. Lerwick, January 3, 1872, MARY HUTCHISON, examined. 1561. You live in Lerwick?-Yes. 1562. Are you in the habit of knitting?-Yes. 1563. Do you knit with your own wool?-Yes. 1564. Do you sell your knitting in Lerwick?-I sell some of it in Lerwick; but I send the most of it south, to Mr. John F. White, Edinburgh. 1565. Do you also act as an agent for him in Lerwick, by taking in things from other people?-Yes; a little. 1566. How are you paid for the articles you send to him?-I am paid in ready money. 1567. Is it remitted to you by a post office order or a bank cheque, as the case may be?-Yes. 1568. How much do you send to him?-I never send a large quantity. I just send what he tells me: a few shawls at a time. 1569. He gives you orders which you execute?-Yes. 1570. Do many women who knit come and sell their shawls to you?-No; I don't buy shawls. I give out wool to be knitted. 1571. How do you purchase your wool?-I buy it for money. 1572. From merchants in Lerwick?-Yes. Sometimes I buy from Mr. Sinclair, but generally I send to the North Isles for it, to people who buy it in there. 1573. There are people in the North Isles who buy the wool from their neighbours and sell it to you, such as Mrs. Smith, who was spoken of by a previous witness?-Yes; much the same.