Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     Carrier pigeons have actually been caught smuggling tobacco in France. By the untimely exhaustion of one of these birds and its consequent fall into the Seine whence it was rescued, a very pretty scheme was unfolded. It seems that a single smuggler employed eighty of the little messengers to transport the fragrant weed across the border without paying the Government revenues. Each bird carried from a third to a half ounce of tobacco, and in this way the flock was rapidly enriching the owner and swindling the State treasury out of thousands of dollars.