31. How much do you earn by knitting in a week or in a month?-I
suppose perhaps about 10s. in a month. I would knit a shawl in a
month, and the merchant would allow me that sum for knitting it.
32. Would it take you a month to knit a shawl, working at nothing
else?-Yes. Of course I would not be always at it. People cannot
sit and knit continually; but it would take a month to make it,
working in an ordinary way.
33. When you take that shawl to the shop, price of say 10s. is put
upon it, how much of that do you got in money, and how much in
goods?-I have knitted a shawl for 10s, and I have got 5s. in
money on it from Mr. Linklater.
34. Is that the usual proportion of money you get?-No, not
always. Sometimes I don't get so much as that.
35. Did you ever ask for more?-No; I think never asked for any
more on one shawl.
36. Supposing you were going with a shawl of that value what
goods would you get? Take the last time you went, for instance:
what did you get?-Cottons, or such things as I would be
requiring. The last time I was there I bought nine yards of cotton
at 81/2d. a yard.