He registered a vow, sealing it with the most solemn protestations, and with a multiplicity of ingenious oaths that only a mind stimulated by the heat of intoxication could have invented, that he would make it his business, upon the first occasion that offered, to go down to Pig and Sow Point and to discover for himself whether it was the Devil or smugglers that had taken possession of the Old Free Grace Meeting-House.

The Duke thinks smugglers are at the bottom of it.

" Mr. Toots, feeling called upon to say something, suggested "Smugglers," and then added, "or Preventive.

The falua belonged to the collector of taxes, and had, in conjunction with another under the command of the alcalde, to protect the north coast of the province against smugglers and pirates, who at this time of the year are accustomed to frequent the hiding-places of the bay of San Miguel.

For I can imagine a revenue cutter chasing a boat into Robin Hood's Bay, and I can see the smugglers hastily landing on the beach and making for the town, followed by the Excise officers, who are as unable to trace the men as though they had been chasing rabbits in a warren.

Trial without Jury.%In order to enforce the old laws, naval vessels were sent to sail up and down the coast and catch smugglers.

I had been warned against the Cercle Bougainville by staid pensioners as being the resort of commoners and worse, of British and American ruffians, of French vulgarians, and of Chinese smugglers.

A customs-officer had accompanied them to the Tiare Hotel, for the French Government wisely made itself certain that they might not be an unknown kind of smugglers, pirates, or runaways.

Smugglers have tried to bribe them, and the smugglers have never lived to tell of it.

The three smugglers gasped in dismay.

"The smugglers are gone," he thought.

After they left Gene, the smugglers Kimball, Lorry, and Jenner quickly gathered together their men and supplies and headed for the airlock to the launching pad.

"They are smugglers," he replied, "and when taken, they fought desperately, and have wounded several of the police.

But how did Robert happen to join the smugglers?" "Master Teuzer sent him away at Christmas," replied Madelaine, "in consequence of the shameful falsehoods he spreadhis next master discovered that he sold his goods and retained the moneyafter leaving him, I suppose, he joined the smugglers.

But how did Robert happen to join the smugglers?" "Master Teuzer sent him away at Christmas," replied Madelaine, "in consequence of the shameful falsehoods he spreadhis next master discovered that he sold his goods and retained the moneyafter leaving him, I suppose, he joined the smugglers.

The smugglers' cave, by George A. Birmingham, pseud.

The smugglers' cave.

The lone eagle of the border; or, Ted Scott and the diamond smugglers, by Franklin W. Dixon, pseud. of Edward Stratemeyer. Illus.

S. J. Perelman (A); 28Apr69; R460951. Smugglers in the dust; or, Hollywood hits back.

Bugs Bunny outwits the smugglers.

He protested no less strongly whenever the Spanish court or the Spanish authorities at New Orleans either relaxed their vigilant severity against the river smugglers, or for the time being lowered the duties; whether this was done to encourage the Westerners in their hostilities to the East, or to placate them when their exasperation reached a pitch that threatened actual invasion.

It is in no trifling degree owing to the jealous and exclusive views which unhappily prevail with our nearest neighbour across the Channel, that the prohibitory tariff, scarcely more adverse to commercial intercourse than that of France after all, which robs the revenue of Spain, whilst it covers the country with hosts of smugglers, has not sooner been revised and reformed.

It was after midnight when they recrossed the river to the American side, using a ford known to but a few smugglers.

They have been known to go for days without sleep, while smugglers, well mounted, have put a hundred miles of country behind them in a single night.

In the old days the boundary between the Papal States and the kingdom of Naples ran through these mountains, and the contrabbandierithe smugglers of all sorts of waresused to cross from one dominion to the other by circuitous paths and steep ways of which only a few had knowledge.