Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1895 — Extraordinary Smuggling. [ARTICLE]

Extraordinary Smuggling.

Harper's Younjr People. The genius of the smuggler is a very rein irkabie tiling. One of the most amusing stories of smugglers is that told by an Englislimau who imported into his own 'country a number of fine fat geese at the Christmas season many ago. One of them having excited the suspicions of the inspectors by its wonderful weight, was killed and opened, upon which it was discovered, says the chronicle, that there was concealed in, it a number of small dutiable articles. The rest of the flock having been similarly tnspectefl, it was found that their owner had compelled the unhappy birds to swallow a large quantity of stuff upon which there was q heavy duty, and which would have all come in free had not the first goose excited the suspicion of tlfose in charge.