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liberal supplies of rum and milk and cake. The old 

 fellow, who evidently belonged to the neighbour- 

 hood, told us that he remembered the time when 

 smugglers used to hide their contraband goods in 

 the middle of the wood we were then in. One 

 Sunday morning, whilst out for a stroll, he came 

 upon a man guarding a cargo of spirits 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. 



" That he did,' 7 answered the old man; u an' I 

 didn't tell on him nayther." 



WILD DUCK ON HER NEST. 



