1897. Will it take a month to make a shawl which is worth £1?- Yes. I have other things to do, and cannot keep constantly at it. 1898. But you do make one shawl a month or there about?-Yes. 1899. So that your dealings in that way will come perhaps £12 or £14 a year?-They will be more than that. I would reckon that they would be about £15. 1900. Would that all be your own knitting?-I could not say that. Perhaps I might get some one to help me a little with a shawl. 1901. But it would be mostly your own work?-Yes. Lerwick, January 3, 1872, MARGARET OLLASON, examined. 1902. Are you in the habit of knitting for merchants in Lerwick?- No; I knit for myself, and I sell the goods. 1903. How are you paid for them?-I generally make articles for which I get an order. 1904. From whom?-From ladies who employ me. 1905. Have you never sold to merchants at all?-I have sometimes sold to Mr. Sinclair. 1906. When you sell to him, are you paid in money?-I have asked for part of both-money and goods-and I got it. 1907. You did not ask for the whole in money?-No. 1908. Why?-Just because I thought it was not the custom of the place. 1909. Did you want the whole in money?-No; I was requiring the goods at the time. 1910. Does it often happen that you sell articles to Mr. Sinclair in that way?-Yes; I sold him two shawls lately. 1911. How much of the price did you get in money?-The price of one of the shawls was 35s., and I got 17s. 6d. in money. 1912. Did you ask for that?-Yes. 1913. And you had no difficulty in getting it?-No. I sold the other shawl for 28s., and I got 8s. in money and £1 in goods. 1914. That was the arrangement that you wanted yourself?-Yes; I asked it. 1915. You wanted the goods?-Yes. 1916. Would you have made a better bargain by selling these shawls to a lady in Lerwick, or to a stranger visiting the place?-I got much the same price from Mr. Sinclair as I had been in the habit of getting. 1917. Do you sell to visitors, or to ladies in Lerwick, because you prefer to do that?-We sell to them because we are not requiring the goods. 1918. And you prefer to sell to them because you wish to get the money?-Yes. 1919. Do you live with your friends?-I live with my father. 1920. And you buy your own worsted?-Yes. 1921. Where do you buy it?-I get it from the North Isles,-from Yell. 1922. You get it from people who make it there?-Yes. 1923. Do you generally knit for ladies who have given you an order, or do you knit your shawl and then seek for a purchaser?- Sometimes I get an order for shawl and make it, and at other times I make one and keep it until I get an order. 1924. Is it considered among you who knit, to be a better way of living that you knit to ladies than to merchants?-Yes. 1925. Do you ever try to dispose of your shawls to visitors who come to Shetland in the summer?-No, I never did that, for I generally get orders for them as soon as I have them ready.