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liberal supplies of rum and luilk and cake. The old 

 fello\y, who evidently belonged to the neighbour- 

 hood, told us that he remembered the time when 

 smugglers used to hide their contra]jand goods in 

 the middle of the wood we were then in. One 

 Sunday morning, whilst out for a stroll, lie came 

 upon a man guarding a cargo of S2)irits which was 

 to be taken further inland, and the smuggler begged 

 of him not to inform the authorities. 



"Did he give you any, bor?'' inquired the 

 decoy-man laughingly. 



" Tliat he did," answered the old man; ''an' I 

 didn't tell on him nayther." 



WILD DUCK ON HER NEST. 



