1781. Perhaps you can make a better bargain for them?-They have that idea. 1782. Have you never been asked by a country girl to sell a shawl for her and to get money for it?-Never. 1783. Then, on the occasions when you have got money, it has been for shawls which you have sold either for yourself or for town girls?-Yes, but particularly for my self. 1784. Have you sold them for town girls, and got money for them?-No; I have never asked money for any person but myself, and I have always got it. [Page 35] 1785. How many shawls may you sell for yourself in the course of a year?-Sometimes there may be two. 1786. May there sometimes be three?-I could not tell the number particularly, but I have always one or two in the course of the twelvemonth. 1787. I suppose you are chiefly engaged with your dressing business, and have not much time to knit shawls?-Yes; the dressing is my only way of living. 1788. Are you a widow?-Yes. 1789. Have you often got lines similar to the one you have now produced?-Yes. Whenever I sell a shawl to Mr. Sinclair I get these lines, and then I give them to the girls to whom the shawls belong. 1790. Then they don't always want the value of their shawls in goods, but they sometimes take a line-Yes; and they keep it until they want something else. They are always served with what they want when they come with a line. 1791. You have not a pass-book with any of the merchants?-No. 1792. I suppose pass-books are only used where girls knit with the merchants wool?-Yes. 1793. Do you keep a pass-book with any of the merchants for the shawls which you dress for them?-No; I just get the money. 1794. Are you paid for them at the time?-Yes. 1795. Will the merchant send you a large consignment of shawls at a time to be dressed?-Yes; sometimes he may send a good lot. 1796. And you return the lot you have got when they are finished, and get paid for them when you return them?-Yes; in money. 1797. There is nothing entered in any book between you about that?-No. 1798. Are you the largest dresser in Lerwick?-I don't know that I am. 1799. Are there any others in the business?-Yes; there are a good many. 1800. Do they live mostly at the Docks?-No; there are one or two dressers who live at the Docks. They don't do so much as I do, but Mr. Sinclair has dressers of his own who do more than I. 1801. Does he pay them day's wages?-No; I think he pays them just as they work for him. The veils, neckties, and scarfs go by dozens. 1802. Is that the way you charge for these things?-I charge 11s. 6d. for a dozen veils, and the same for a dozen neckties or scarfs. I charge 6d. for every shawl, sometimes 3d. or 4d. if it is small, or 1s. if it is a very fine one. 1803. Have you ever sold shawls to any people except merchants?-I have. 1804. Do you sometimes sell to private ladies?-Yes, and gentlemen too. 1805. Do you sell to visitors in summer, and to people living in Lerwick?-Yes.