Climbing the Unclimbable Fence 57 
of birdsnesters. My ‘‘crime” was never taken judicial notice of, 
and here I was happier than the luckless private soldier, who not 
long since committed the same offence and according to report 
was charged with ‘“ Neglecting to obey Fortress Orders, in that 
he, at Gibraltar, on April 1, 1t90—, contrary to the Fortress 
Order directing all persons to abstain from doing so—climdbed the 
Onclimbable Fence!” 
