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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
I THE FENELBY TARIFF
II THE BOX OF BON-BONS
III KITTY'S TRUNKS
IV BILLY
V THE PINK SHIRT-WAIST
VI BRIDGET
VII THE AMATEUR DETECTIVE
VIII THE FIELD OF DISHONOR
IX BOBBERTS INTERVENES
X TARIFF REFORM
XI THE COUP D'ÉTAT
The Cheerful Smugglers
I
THE FENELBY TARIFF