"'Was it provided for the purpose of the mill?' 'Yes, we got our bread and water there.' "'Did you sleep in a bothy at Duff & Taylor's?' 'Yes.' "'Were you locked up in a bothy?' 'No.' "'What is a bothy?' 'It is a house with beds all round.' "'Is it not the practice for farm-servants, and others, who are unmarried, to sleep in such places?' 'I could not say as to that; I am not acquainted with the farm system.' "'To what mill did you next go?' 'To Mr. Webster's, at Battus Den, within eleven miles of Dundee.' "'In what situation did you act there?' 'I acted as an overseer.' "'At 17 years of age?' 'Yes.' "'Did you inflict the same punishment that you yourself had experienced?' 'I went as an overseer; not as a slave, but as a slave-driver.' "'What were the hours of labour in that mill?' 'My master told me that I had to produce a certain quantity of yarn; the hours were at that time fourteen; I said that I was not able to produce the quantity of yarn that was required; I told him if he took the timepiece out of the mill I would produce that quantity, and after that time I found no difficulty in producing the quantity.' "'How long have you worked per day in order to produce the quantity your master required?' 'I have wrought nineteen hours.' "'Was this a water-mill?' 'Yes, water and steam both.' "'To what time have you worked?' 'I have seen the mill going till it was past 12 o'clock on the Saturday night.' "'So that the mill was still working on the Sabbath morning.' 'Yes.' "'Were the workmen paid by the piece, or by the day?' 'No, all had stated wages.' "'Did not that almost compel you to use great severity to the hands then under you?' 'Yes; I was compelled often to beat them, in order to get them to attend to their work, from their being overwrought.' "'Were not the children exceedingly fatigued at that time?' 'Yes, exceedingly fatigued.' "'Were the children bound in the same way in that mill?' 'No; they were bound from one year's end to another, for twelve months.' "'Did you keep the hands locked up in the same way in that mill?' 'Yes, we locked up the mill; but we did not lock the bothy.' "'Did you find that the children were unable to pursue their labour properly to that extent?' 'Yes; they have been brought to that condition, that I have gone and fetched up the doctor to them, to see what was the matter with them, and to know whether they were able to rise, or not able to rise; they were not at all able to rise; we have had great difficulty in getting them up.' "'When that was the case, how long have they been in bed, generally speaking?' 'Perhaps not above four or five hours in their beds. Sometimes we were very ill-plagued by men coming about the females' bothy.'