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Show the cake." "That ye'll not," said she, and snatching the cake out of his hand she retired across the border, and, regardless re-gardless of possible future consequences, conse-quences, proceeded, under the eyes of the disappointed official, to consume, the cake to the last crumb. Then aha calmly marched over the frontier wltn all the hohors of war. Milwaukee Journal. EATS CAKE TO ESCAPE TAX Irish Woman Thwarts Customs Collector Col-lector Who Attempted to Confiscate Confis-cate Her Pastry. The customs cordon between northern north-ern and southern Ireland Is, of course, a great nuisance to people whose market mar-ket town lies across the border, and the Indignation of those making acquaintance ac-quaintance with the law's vagaries for the first time sometimes leads to amusing Incidents. The other day a market woman was taking home in her basket a good solid "family" cake. On finding that the duty would amount to as much as the price of the cake Itself she declined de-clined to pay. "Refuse ye may," said the official, laying hands on the not uninviting looking confection, "but we confiscate |