rope ; they knew at once that some goods had been hauled up the cliff during the previous night. They managed to descend on to a ledge a little way down, and there, to their surprise, they found five tubs of spirits. They very quickly took them away to a cottage near the Rocklands, and were paid by the owner six shillings per tub. Not a bad forenoon's work. They were seen by people ' on the beach to scramble over the edge of the cliff with their load . Jack soon after got married, and gave up smuggling.
OLD HOUSES.
Hastings in its smuggling days had a great many old-fashioned houses. Some of these were well adapted in their internal arrangements for the concealment of smuggled goods. They were also very picturesque in appearance ; there are still some remaining in High Street and All Saints Street. There were two when I was young, one of which I know was much used as a hiding-place for run goods ; the other had not, that I know of, any connection with smuggling, but it was a good specimen of the kind of house, once more numerous in Hastings than at present. It was situated in Bourne Passage, and was in my time inhabited by a man named Ben Butchers, who was dog-whipper in St. Clement's Church. "A dog-whipper ?" say you, a dog-whipper ?" A dog-whipper was one -
