Produced by D Alexander and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) 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 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.