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The Cheerful Smugglers

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First published: 1908
Pages: 100

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The Fenelby Tariff
20:57
The Box of Bon-Bons
13:28
Kitty’s Trunks
21:20
Billy
12:36
The Pink Shirt-Waist
21:31
Bridget
13:47
The Amateur Detective
23:14
The Field of Dishonor
11:55
Bobberts Intervenes
17:06
Tariff Reform
16:15
The Coup d’État
19:24

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Tom and Laura Fenelby hit on an odd scheme to build savings for their infant son, Bobberts: a household tariff, with duty owed on every article carried through their own front door. What starts as a thrifty parlor game becomes a running comedy once guests, relatives, the servant Bridget, and the Fenelbys themselves begin slipping goods past the domestic customs line. Ellis Parker Butler, the humorist behind "Pigs Is Pigs," borrows the language of protective tariffs and applies it to dinner tables and doorsteps, where the rules collapse about as fast as anyone can invent them. Published in 1908 with illustrations by May Wilson Preston, it is a light, warmly observed sketch of American home life, and it moves quickly enough to finish in a single sitting.

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Ellis Parker Butler

Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) was an American humorist and one of the most prolific magazine writers of his day, publishing more than two thousand stories and essays. He is best known for the comic tale "Pigs Is Pigs," though he wrote widely for both adults and children.