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Show DOG THAT WAS A SMUGGLER Earned for His Master, Bit Was Dls- covered nnd Killed o His Work. The official organ of the Uolglnn customs department mentions the death of a notorious smuggler's dog which earned for hs master a mo'lest competence. The latter ot first mado frequent Innocent trips w',,i his big, rough-coated companion across tho frontier, until tho customs officers had become quite .friendly with him. Then his time for action came. He shaved tho dog, wound Brussels and Mechlin lace tightly round Its body, and put over this a skin closely resembling the dog's own. For nvo years the dog almost al-most dally trotted with a valuable hidden burden of luco across the bor-dor bor-dor Into Fronch territory, nnd probably tho fraud would still be merrily going on bad not a "friend" betrajed tho secret. se-cret. The faithful dog camo to an untimely un-timely end n revolver bullet. Dogs are often used, It appears, to l n with dutiable goods across the Franco-Belgian frontier. This thoy are taught to do by a course of training which Includes In-cludes dbund thrashings at regular Intervals In-tervals by men dressed as customs officials, offi-cials, so that tho poor animals run aw terror-stricken from Mho eight of a uniform. |