42. Have you any reason to complain of the quality of the goods
you get?-No, I have not.
43. Would you wish to go to any other shop if you got money?-I
have no reason to leave Mr. Linklater, for he has always given me
money as well as I could have got it from any other merchant, I
believe.
44. What arrangement do you make about the supplying of the
wool?-We make no arrangement.
45. Then you are supplied with the wool; and the 10s. is the price
not of the shawl, but of your work upon it?-Yes.
46. Is that the usual way in which the knitting trade is carried on by
the women in Shetland?-Yes.
47. Do they generally get the wool supplied to them that way?-I
believe they do. At least it is the way with some of them. They
won't want it.
48. They don't buy the wool themselves?-They are not able to
buy the wool.
49. Have you worked for other merchants than Mr. Linklater?-
No; only for him. I have knitted a few things for a lady, but I never
knitted to any other merchant than Mr. Linklater.
50. Then you don't know how the other merchants deal with the
women who knit for them?-No; I cannot say anything about that.
51. Would you prefer to sell your goods to a private lady, or to a
stranger counting to Shetland, rather than have to take them to a
merchant?-If I could get all money for them, I would prefer that.
52. Supposing there was a merchant here who paid for goods
altogether in money, would you prefer to take your hosiery to
him?-Yes; if I could get all money, I would prefer that.
53. Is there no such person?-No; there is no such person here as
that. A lady may buy a thing or two at a time, and give money for
them, but that could not be a general thing.
54. How do you know that you cannot got money from the
merchants? Is it because you have attempted to get it, or simply
because you have a sort of understanding to that effect?-The
merchants don't allow all money for the knitting.