1623. How much of that do you get in money?-I have never got any money from Mr. Sinclair at all. It is about seven years since I asked him for 1s., and he would not give it me, and I have not asked since. 1624. Can you only get dry goods and tea at the shops?-I can get tea, and soap, and soda, and blue, and starch, and the like of that. 1625. How do you get your food?-I have a father, who buys it for me. 1626. You live with your father, and get your food with the family?-Yes; what his wages can bring in. 1627. Is that the only way you have of getting a living?-No; sometimes I have to take things out of the shop and sell them for money. 1628. To whom do you sell them?-To any neighbour or any person who requires them. 1629. Do you do that often?-No; I have not done it for the last two years, because some of the ladies in the town have employed me to knit for money. 1630. Do you prefer to sell to ladies in the town?-Yes. 1631. Are the goods which you knit for them for their own use?- Yes; or perhaps they get an order from the south, and they will rather put the money our way than go to the merchants with it. 1632. Do many ladies befriend you in that way?-Not many. There is Mrs. Walker, the Rev. Mr. Walker's lady. 1633. Who else?-I have not done anything for any other person for money. 1634. But Mrs. Walker pays you in money?-Yes; and the same amount as I would get in goods from the shops. 1635. Are the women who knit anxious to get customers of that kind?-Yes. 1636. Would you be content with a lower price for your shawls if you could get it in cash?-Yes. 1637. Have you ever been to take a lower price and get the money?-No. 1638. Have you ever offered to take less for your shawls if you could get money?-Yes. 1639. To whom did you make that offer?-I offered a white half- shawl to Mr. Robert Sinclair, and I also offered a white half-shawl to Mr. Thomas Nicholson. 1640. When?-The one I sold to Mr. Nicholson was in the spring, and that to Mr. Sinclair was about two years back. 1641. How much less did you offer to take in these cases?-2s. The shawl was worth £1, and I offered it for 18s. 1642. Was anything due to you by Mr. Sinclair at the time you asked for the shilling?-Yes; I think he was due me about 5s. 6d. at that time. 1643. Do you mean that you took goods to the shop worth 5s. 6d.?-No; he was due me about 5s., 6d. at that time. I was knitting a shawl for him, and was settling up for it. 1644. Was the shawl not finished?-Yes; I brought the shawl ready, and I was settling up. I had all the price of the shawl to get, and I took some goods, and then there was about 5s. 6d. over; and I asked him for 1s., and he said he could not give it to me. 1645. How did you square the balance at that time?-I just took something to give to a girl who had been working in our peats. 1646. What did you take?-A petticoat. 1647. Was it worth. 5s. 6d.?-Yes; the girl took it because she knew I could not get the money.