2081. How many veils will you take to him in a week?-I could not exactly say. There are four of us besides me. 2082. Do you all knit for Mr. Sinclair?-There is one who knits besides me, and another dresses. 2083. Does she dress only your own knitting, or does she take in other people's knitting to dress too?-She dresses what she gets to do for other people. 2084. Does she do a good deal in that way for other people?-Yes. 2085. You cannot tell me how many veils you take: to Mr. Sinclair in a week?-We might do three in week, each of us, if we were able to work constantly at it. 2086. Do you work at anything else?-Nothing else-only veils; but we are so often in trouble, that I could hardly tell you how many we do in a week. There are three sisters and one brother of us alive now: my father and mother are dead. 2087. Is your brother a fisherman?-No; he is in a shop. 2088. You are not a married woman?-No. 2089. How much will you get for your veils when you take a lot of them to Mr. Sinclair? Are they sold at 1s. each?-It is generally very fine veils that we knit, and we get 1s. 6d. each for them. 2090. How many do you take at a time to the shop?-Perhaps a dozen, or perhaps two dozen. 2091. If you take a dozen, that would be 18s. worth?-Yes. 2092. How much of that will you get in money?-Our rent is paid from the knitting. That, of course, is money. 2093. You have to get as much as will pay your rent?-Yes. 2094. How do you get your provisions?-We get money whenever we ask it, besides what is taken for our rent. 2095. Are you tenants of Mr Sinclair?-Yes. 2096. You have a house from him, and he keeps your rent off what you have to get for your knitting?-Yes; and we have sometimes to get as high as 5s. a week from him, and we always get it. 2097. That is, for your living?-Yes. 2098. Do you get as much money in payment for your veils as you require?-Yes; as much as we ask for. 2099. Will you manage to take a dozen veils to him in the course of a fortnight?-Yes; or perhaps a dozen in three weeks. 2100. You are speaking both of your sisters and yourself?-Yes. 2101. How much of that 18s. as a general thing, will you get in money?-I can hardly say. If we were to ask money weekly we would get it: but since our brother's wages were raised, we have not asked so often for money. 2102. That is to say, you have spent more of the produce of your knitting in goods-in clothing?-Yes. 2103. Have you ever had to sell any of the goods that you got at the shop?-No. 2104. Or tea?-No. 2105. You don't knit any for selling, and you never did?-No. 2106. Do you think you would be any better off if you got all the price of your knitting in money?-I don't think it, because if I got it in money I would just lay it down on the counter and get goods for it. 2107. That is to say, you would get the same quantity of goods that you get now?-Yes. Of course I would not take the money and go to another shop with it. [Page 41]