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The Cheerful Smugglers

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

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

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"She was busy with Bobberts" 27

Bobberts 39