The inquisitive traveller at Cul-saville, a great. smuggling centre, might learn something of the arts of the trade, says the writer. The noses of cattle, he might be told, are rubbed with saltpetre to prevent them from lowing, and pigs are made drunk with stout to keep them from squealing during the surreptitious journey across the frontier; white spots on red cows are painted to prevent them from being seen, and shoemakers are working overtime to provide felt slippers for cattle that have to be smuggled silently out of Eire "Fact and fiction," reman Mr. Strong, "are much the same to the Irishman.
Greyhounds. especially when a good dog fetched two or three hundred pounds, in Ulster, were profitable contraband. Their owners are said to favour the more moun-famous districts, where the dogs usually get the better of the patrols.
Butter under Bounty Extraordinary anomalies have come into existence. Republican butter for example, is exported under the bounty system to the
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