Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1902 — Must Have Been Smuggled. [ARTICLE]

Must Have Been Smuggled.

Sir Barrington Beaumonts' memoirs, recently published, tell the following: /‘I recollect a discussion between a Scotch lord and Lady Clermont as to the merits of the other side of the border. ‘How is it,’ said she, ‘that the Scots who leave Scotland are usually men of more ability than those who remain at home?’ ‘Ah, madam,’ he responded, with an effort at persiflage, ‘the reason is obvious. At every outlet there are persons stationed to examine all who pass, that, for the honor of the country, no oiie be permitted to leave it who is not a man of understanding.’ ‘I suppose, then,’ murmured George Selwyn to me, ‘his lordship must have been smuggled.’ ”