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Title: The Cheerful Smugglers

Author: Ellis Parker Butler

Illustrator: May Wilson Preston

Release Date: November 23, 2008 [EBook #27317]

Language: English

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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

[Illustration: "'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'ETAT 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 don