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 HOUSETOPS IN GIBRALTAR TOWN

innumerable means of carrying on free trade in a protected land. Another and a clever one is practiced near Gibraltar, where Spanish dogs with loads of contraband tobacco tied to them, are loosed upon the neutral ground and naturally run for home, usually getting safely past the sentinels and customs spies upon the Spanish line. Sometimes, however, they are caught,—but little good does the government derive from the capture, for the tobacco is confiscated by the sentries for their own consumption. The railway smuggling is carried on despite the watchfulness of the Civil Guard, two members of which excellent corps are invariably upon the platform of every station. This Guardia Civil has done more than any other body to establish order in the land. Its personal is composed of men of highest character; they