when they overhung a projecting part of the cliff, a man with a pair or three tubs slung over his shoulders would find the upper part of his body thrown outwards, and his feet inwards, but without being able to touch the face of the cliff with his toes : such parts were avoided as much as possible, and places chosen where the cliff sloped from ledge to ledge.
TUBS COVERED WITH PLASTER OF PARIS .
Formerly vessels freighted with chalk frequently unloaded at Hastings, and on one occasion a " free trader," in order to deceive the blockade, had a cargo of tubs coated over with plaster of Paris, roughly put on. It happened that when the cargo was being unloaded, as if it were chalk, one of these manufactured lumps slipped off the cart while it was going up the beach. A Coast-blockade man coming along, began to poke it about with the point of his cutlass, which after a little stuck in the cask, and let out the brandy and the secret.
HAULING GOODS UP THE HUTCH AT BOPEEP .
One very curious way in which the smugglers outwitted the Coast-guard, was by hauling goods up the timbered hutch or outlet of the river Asten, that then existed a little to the eastward of No. 39, or Bopeep Tower. The goods having been previously sunk at a -
