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A _cache_ -- Smugglers' paths -- Donkeys -- Hiding-places -- Connivance / with smugglers -- A baronet's carriage -- Wrecking -- "Fatal / curiosity" -- A ballad -- Excuses made for smuggling -- Story by / Hawker -- Desperate affrays -- Sub-division of / labour -- "Creeping" -- Fogous -- One at Porth-cothan.
The other day I saw an old farmhouse in process of demolition in the parish of Altarnon, on the edge of the Bodmin moors. The great hall chimney was of unusual bulk, bulky as such chimneys usually are; and when it was thrown down it revealed the explanation of this unwonted size. Behind the back of the hearth was a chamber fashioned in the thickness of the wall, to which access might have been had at some time through a low walled-up doorway that was concealed behind the kitchen dresser and plastered over. This door was so low that it could be passed through only on all-fours.