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The
Cheerful Smugglers
By
Ellis Parker Butler
Author of “Confessions of a Daddy,”
“Pigs is Pigs,” etc.
With illustrations by
May Wilson Preston
New York
The Century Co.
1908
Copyright, 1908, by
The Century Co.
Copyright, 1907, by
The Phelps Publishing Co.
Published, May, 1908
THE DE VINNE PRESS
“‘We ought to have a domestic tariff’”Contents
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | The Fenelby Tariff | 3 |
| II. | The Box of Bon-Bons | 34 |
| III. | Kitty’s Trunks | 57 |
| IV. | Billy | 91 |
| V. | The Pink Shirt-Waist | 110 |
| VI. | Bridget | 139 |
| VII. | The Amateur Detective | 158 |
| VIII. | The Field of Dishonor | 189 |
| IX. | Bobberts Intervenes | 206 |
| X. | Tariff Reform | 229 |
| XI. | The Coup d’État | 251 |
List of Illustrations
| “‘We ought to have a domestic tariff’” | Frontispiece |
| PAGE | |
| “She was busy with Bobberts” | 27 |
| Bobberts | 39 |
| “Mrs. Fenelby handed Kitty’s baggage-checks to Tom” |
55 |
| “Never in the history of trunks was the act of unpacking done so quickly or so recklessly” |
81 |
| “With all the grace of a Sandow” | 87 |
| “‘I declare one collar’” | 103 |
| “When the 6:02 pulled in” | 193 |
The
Cheerful Smugglers
I
THE FENELBY TARIFF
Bobberts was the baby, and ever since Bobberts was born—and that was nine months next Wednesday, and just look what a big, fat boy he is now!—his parents had been putting all their pennies into a little pottery pig, so that when Bobberts reached the proper age he could go to college. The money in the little pig bank was officially known as “Bobberts’ Education Fund,” and next to Bobberts himself was the thing in the house most talked about. It was “Tom, dear, have you put your pennies in the bank this evening?” or “I say, Laura, how about Bobberts’ pennies to-day. Are you holding out on him?” And then, when they came to count the contents of the bank, there were only twenty-three dollars and thirty-eight cents in it after nine months of faithful penny contributions.
That was how Fenelby, who had a great mind for such things, came to think of the Fenelby tariff. It was