315. Did you not ask for more than 2s. upon it?-No. I did not ask
for any more, because she did not wish to give any more.
316. You did not ask for the whole price of the shawl in money?-
No.
317. Did you want it all in money?-I would have liked it all in
money.
318. Why? What would you have done with the money if you had
had it?-There is many a thing that can be done with money.
319. But had you any particular reason for wanting the money
instead of the goods? Did you not want the goods?-I could have
been doing at that time without the articles that I got; but I just had
to take them, because I could get no more than 2s. in money on the
shawl.
320. Is that the usual practice in your dealings with the
merchants?-Not always. Sometimes I have seen me getting a few
shillings more from her; and at other times, if she did not have a
particular order for the articles, she seemed not to be willing to
give any, money at all.
321. How do you square your accounts when you get goods in that
way? For instance, when you sold that 12s. shawl and got the 2s.
in money, did you also get so many yards of cloth?-Yes; of print.