1483. The goods you got at the shop are entered in the first part of
the book, and then at the end there are entries of the knitted work
which you have brought back to the shop?-Yes; I knitted a great
deal before I took the pass-book out at all.
1484. The knitting begins on July 7th, 1869, and the goods begin
in November 1866, and there was balance due for knitting of £3,
17s., 10d., which is not entered in the book at all: how do you
explain in that?-It was them who always made up the book.
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1485. Had you a pass-book for goods before this?-I knitted a long
time before I took a pass-book.
1486. When did you begin to knit?-I cannot remember how many
years it is ago. I had knitted for two or three years to Mr. Linklater
before I got the book.
1487. Are the goods which are entered here just for your own
use?-No; I sold some tea and got money for it, for I could not get
money out of the shop.
1488. I see that in, 1867, on January 3d, you have, Tea 1s. 10d.;
24th, 9d.; 26th, tea 11d., tea 11d., 1s. 10d: does the last entry mean
that you got two separate parcels of tea, each 11d.?-It may have
been that; I cannot exactly say.
1489. How much tea would you get for 11d.?-A quarter of a
pound.
1490. Then you got two quarter pounds on one day?-I suppose
so. One would be for my own use and the other not.
1491. What would the other be for?-I would likely sell the other,
in order to get money for it.
1492. Who do you generally sell it to?-I cannot remember who I
sold it to. Sometimes there would be men coming to the house to
buy, tea, and I supplied them.
1493. What kind of men were these?-Men come from the
country and want to have some tea made and I supply them with it
because I have it in the house.
1494. Do you keep lodgers?-I have very few lodgers; but
sometimes people come from the country and want tea made for
them, although they do not stay all night.
1495. Why, did they not stay all night?-Because they went home.
1496. Was it part of your business to take in people and give them
tea?-No; but they would come into the house and get tea made,
and then go out and do their errands.
1497. Then they came to your house to get refreshments?-Yes.
1498. And they sometimes paid you for the which they got?-Yes;
I was always paid for the tea which I gave them in that way.
1499. Did you sell it to them in quarter pounds or smaller
quantities?-Smaller quantities.
1500. Do you make a profit off that?-I get money for that, but I
cannot say that I make a profit. Sometimes I had people working
for me, to whom I gave a quarter pound of tea.
1501. When you got two quarter pounds, would you sell one
quarter entire?-Yes. When people were working for me, then I
had to give them a quarter of a pound of tea in order to pay them,
because I did not have money to give them.
1502. What people had you working for you?-I have sometimes
been sick, and I have had a person attending upon me, because I
am not healthy; and I had to pay these persons in tea.
1503. Are you a married woman?-No.
1504. Have you a house of your own?-Yes; a room.
1505. The entries in this book only come down to February 1870.
Have you had no book since then?-No.
1506. Have you still been dealing with Mr. Linklater?-No; I have
been working for myself with my own worsted. That was when I
stopped knitting for him.
1507. I see an entry on September 9th 1868, Tea 10d., tea 8d., 1s.
6d.: would these be two quarter pounds of tea of different
quality?-Sometimes they would be that, and sometimes not.
1508. But I am speaking of that particular entry. Was it so in that,
case?-I cannot remember.
1509. But when you got tea at 10d. and tea at 8d., that must have
been two quarter pounds of different qualities?-Yes; I would get
better tea, and tea that was not so good.
1510. When you got them on the same day, would you be
intending to sell one of them?-Yes.
1511. Is that a common practice, to get two quarter pounds of tea
and to sell one of them, or to get several quarter pounds in
payment for your shawl?-No; I just got it as I asked for it.
1512. Have you sold anything else besides tea which you got from
the shop?-Yes, cottons and some moleskins which I had to take
out of the shop in order to pay my rent.
1513. I don't see any moleskins marked here?-No; they are not in
that book.
1514. Had you any other book?-No; it was when I sold my own
shawls that I took the moleskins.
1515. You say you buy your own wool: where do you buy it?-
There is a woman who spins it for me. I buy it in worsted.
1516. Do you pay her for it in money?-Yes.
1517. And you sell your shawls to any merchant who will buy
them?-Yes.
1518. How are you paid for them?-I sold the last two to Miss
Robina Leisk.
1519. Is she a merchant in Lerwick?-Yes.
1520. Has she a shop?-Yes.
1521. How were you paid for these shawls?-I got £2, 14s. for the
two-27s. apiece.
1522. Were you paid in money?-No.