1713. If that was so, did you ever ask him for money at all?-Yes; sometimes, when I was in a strait for money I asked him for a little, and I got it. 1714. Then that was an advance, which he made when there was nothing due to you?-Yes; I have asked him for money when I was due him. 1715. But you don't know how that was entered in the pass-book, or whether it was entered there at all?-No; I don't think it was entered. 1716. I see there are entries in your pass-book: April 28, 1871, cash 1s.; April 26, cash 6d.: is that the way the money was entered?-Yes. 1717. There is an entry of worsted, 5d. was that worsted given to you for the purpose of knitting shawls to Mr. Sinclair?-I asked for worsted to buy, and I got it to knit for myself, and to sell again. 1718. Then it is entered in the pass-book just as goods?-Yes. 1719. Is there any difficulty made about giving you worsted in that way and entering it in the pass-book?-No; whenever I ask for worsted, I get it the same as any other thing out of the shop. 1720. Were you ever told that worsted was a money article?-No; I never was told that, so far as I can remember. 1721. Have you dealt in any other shop than Mr. Sinclair's in this way?-No; I have knitted for two and a half years for Mr, Sinclair. 1722. And always in the same way?-Yes. 1723. Are you a North Unst woman?-Yes. 1724. Do you live in Lerwick by yourself?-I live with my mother and my two sisters in a room. 1725. Does your mother knit?-No; she spins. 1726. Does she spin your wool?-No; she gets wool from other people to spin, and gets money for her work. She only spins for those who employ her. 1727. Does she spin for the shops?-No; she spins generally for ladies in the town, who employ her to make worsted for them. 1728. Ask her employers altogether ladies, not merchants?-They are just merchants' wives, and ladies in the town-chiefly Dr. Cowie's lady. Lerwick, January 3, 1872, MRS ANN ARCUS, examined. 1729. You are a dresser in Lerwick?-Yes. 1730. How do you carry on that business? What is the nature of it?-I sometimes make shawls myself, and sell them. There [producing it] is a line of mine, which I got from Mr. Sinclair. 1731. Do you dress shawls or make them?-I dress shawls, and sometimes I make them or get them made. 1732. What is the dressing business?-Washing the shawls, and stretching them on the grass, and mending [Page 34] them and making them ready for the market. The stitches sometimes give way when they are stretched and then I mend them. 1733. Do you also bleach the shawls?-We whiten them with brimstone. 1734. You do that before stretching them on the grass?-Yes. 1735. That is part of the washing process?-Yes. 1736. Does every shawl, after being knitted require to be so dressed before it is sold?-Yes. 1737. The merchants don't buy shawls until after they are dressed?-No.