1738. Are your transactions in dressing shawls always with the knitters, or are they sometimes with the merchants?-Sometimes they are with the merchants, and sometimes with the knitters. 1739. Then the merchants do buy shawls undressed?-No; they do not buy them undressed, but they send some shawls out to be worked for themselves; and it is these shawls I dress for them 1740 In that way a knitter who works for a merchant has nothing to do with you?-No. 1741. When she has knitted a shawl with wool supplied by the merchant, she takes it to the merchant, and he sends it to you to be dressed?-Yes. 1742. It is only the knitters who work with their own wool who come to you?-Yes. 1743. Do you also buy shawls from knitters yourself?-No; but I get shawls made in the same way as the merchants do, and then I sell them. 1744. To whom do you sell them?-To the merchants. 1745. Do you send any shawls south?-No. 1746. Do you sometimes sell knitted articles to the merchants on behalf of the knitters?-Yes. 1747. When a knitter brings you a shawl to dress, I suppose she pays you in money?-Yes. 1748. What is the usual for that?-There are different charges, according to the size of the shawl; but for the general run of them it is 6d. 1749. And that is always paid by the knitter to you in money?- Yes. 1750. In what way is it that you are sometimes asked to sell articles for the knitters?-Because I cannot always have them dressed and ready for them to sell after the time they come in with the goods and before they go away again. These women come from the country, and I cannot have their things ready before they want to go home again; and therefore I sell them for them before they come back. 1751. You sell them as their agent?-Yes. 1752. And then you account to them for the price?-Yes. I get the price from some of the merchants, but others mark it in their books, and don't give lines. These merchants mark down the price of the shawl, and the name of the woman who owns it. 1753. And she, when she comes to the merchant again, arranges with him as to the price?-Yes. 1754. Is it within your knowledge that these shawls are always paid for in goods?-The country girls don't want money, and don't ask it. It is always clothing they need, and they get it. 1755. Then they just knit for the purpose of supplying themselves with clothing?-Yes. 1756. How is it that they don't want money?-They have some other way of doing at home, and I suppose they only want their clothing from the shops in Lerwick. 1757. Then the knitting with them is an extra sort of employment?-Yes; it is not exactly a livelihood for them. 1758. Is that the case with the town girls too?-No; they generally depend on their knitting for a living. 1759. Do they regard it as a hardship not to get money?-I can only speak for myself, not for them. When I have a shawl of my own, and ask some money on it, I get it.