Part 366 (1/2)
15,638. What do you do?-Anything that I can. I go errands or knit stockings, or anything of that sort.
15,639. Do you sometimes go about selling things?-I have sold three or four neckties to different people.
15,640. Do you not sell other kinds of goods?-No. If I sell anything, it is of my own.
15,641. Do you sell shop goods of different kinds?-No.
15,642. Do you mean that you do not go about the country and hawk goods?-I don't do that.
15,643. Did you ever get any shop goods from a knitter for the purpose of selling them or exchanging them for other things?- No; the neckties I sold I got ready money for.
15,644. It is not neckties I am speaking about at all. Have you not sold goods that you had got from knitting women for that purpose?-No, not for some years past.
15,645. Did you once do that?-Yes, some time ago.
15,646. How long ago?-I cannot remember.
15,647. A year ago?-It is about that.
15,648. Did you not make a living sometimes by getting goods from knitters and selling them again in the country?-No; I never was out of Lerwick in my time.
15,649. Did you sell them in Lerwick?-I sold some bits of dribblets of things that were not worth mentioning; but that was some time ago.
15,650. What was it that you sold?-It may have been three yards of cotton, or such as that.
15,651. Did you get such things pretty often from knitters?-No, not often.
15,652. When did you get them last?-It was a long time ago.
15,653. Was it six months ago?-It would be above that.
15,654. Would it be twelve months since you got anything of that kind to sell?-I cannot say.
15,655. You said you had perhaps sold three yards of cotton: whom did you sell it for?-I cannot remember.
15,656. Whom did you get it from?-I cannot remember.
15,657. Have you got it more than once?-Perhaps once or twice; but it is a long time ago now.
15,658. Do you think you may have got it three or four times?-I don't think I did.
15,659. What else did you get besides the three yards of cotton?- Nothing.
15,660. Did you never get a bit of cloth for a dress?-No.
15,661. Or a jacket?-No.
15,662. Or a pair of boots?-No.
15,663. Did you ever get any tea or sugar to sell?-No.