to be nine feet high, and to be straddling along the battlements at a furious rate. Addison, however, assures us, on the authority of the butler addressing the coachman, that he was never apparent except ' in the shape of the sound of a drum !' "
There can be but little reason to doubt, I think, that this legend of the " Ghostly Drummer of Hurstmonceux Castle" had something to do with the smugglers, particularly when we remember that about that time the notorious " Hawkhurst Gang" and other gangs of smugglers existed. It was to their advantage to keep the " country round in a state of alarm," as then they could hold their nightly meetings with less fear of being disturbed.
SMUGGLING INCIDENTS.
The following stories of smugglers are given in "The Battle and the Breeze," previously alluded to, and they will serve to show the tricks that smugglers were obliged to have recourse to, to get their goods away from the coast.
Soon after the derricking affair at Beachy Head, another ingenious scheme was hit upon by the " fair traders" of Eastbourne. "Disguising themselves like shepherds, who are accustomed to employ the time during which their flocks are grazing upon the downs, by descending the precipices- not as Shakespeare says, "to gather sam-
