Note 7 — INTRODUCTION.

Many in America unacquainted with Irish politics are under the impression that moonlighting is "moonshining," i. e., making poteen whisky. Moonshining is pretty common in backward portions of Florida and Virginia. Moonshiners have no welcome for strangers for fear of informing on them. They denounce the laws which compel them to work by night boiling the produce of their toil in the wilderness while no law stops ladies from wearing aigrettes or slaughtering fine birds of Florida for their feathers. On the approach of strangers moonshiners hide the still, extinguish their campfires and hide themselves in the forests very quickly.