1806. Do you consider you are likely to get a better bargain with them than with the merchants?-I get the money from them. 1807. But you have no reason for dealing with them for the purpose of getting the money, because you say you get money from the merchants if you ask it?-Yes; but if a gentleman comes and asks me for a shawl, he has nothing to give me except the money, and I get it all in money then. 1808. Would you rather do with a gentleman or lady in that way than with a merchant?-It is only sometimes that they can take a shawl in that way; but the merchant always takes them. 1809. But would you prefer to deal with strangers rather than with the merchants?-If they were always here, I should like it very well. 1810. That is because you get a better bargain, and you are sure to get all money?-Yes. 1811. Is it not rather a favour to you that the merchant gives you money when you ask it?-I don't know whether it is a favour to me, but I always get it when I ask it. But I don't have such a great run of shawls as some of the other women have. 1812. It is rather out of your ordinary way to be selling shawls?- Yes; but when I do make one and ask money, I get it. 1813. Have you ever got the whole price of a shawl in money?- Yes. 1814. From the whole of merchants you have named?-No, only from Mr. Johnston; and that was for a country girl, because she was in need of it. 1815. That was a case in which you went out of your usual way, because the girl required it?-Yes. 1816. Have you asked the whole money from any of the other merchants?-No, I never did. 1817. You have only asked a part of it in money?-Yes. 1818. On a shawl worth 25s. that you were selling for yourself or for a girl, how much might you, in a general way, ask in money?- I have got as high as 10s. or 7s. 6d. or 5s., just as I asked it. 1819. But you never thought of asking the whole price of it in money?-No; but I was always requiring something that the merchants had to give me. 1820. Supposing you had a shawl to sell, would you give it to a merchant for a lower price if he paid it down in cash, than if he paid you in goods for it?-Yes; if I was requiring the cash, I would. 1821. Would you not do it in any case?-I would be glad of the money, certainly. 1822. Do you think it would be worth while for the knitters, as a rule, to take a less price for their shawls and to get money for them, rather than to go on in the present way?-I don't know about that. For my own part, I should like if the people were to get part of both-both money and articles. Nobody can live without articles; and it is just as well to get them from the merchants who buy our shawls, as to get the money.