Smuggled from Belgium
to France in the beginning of the nineteenth century, when France was using much Belgian lace. Dogs were trained to serve the smugglers’ purpose. “In France the animal was fed well, petted, caressed and made extremely happy; then, after a time, he was taken across the frontier into Belgium, where he was starved and otherwise ill-treated. After a short time of wretchedness the skin of a larger dog was fitted to his body, the intervening space filled with lace and sewn up, and the dog allowed to escape. He naturally made direct for the old home across the frontier in France, where he had been so kindly treated, and was soon relieved of his contraband.”
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue X, 9 March 1901, Page 470
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118Smuggled from Belgium New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue X, 9 March 1901, Page 470
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