e 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.

That was how Fenelby, who had a great mind for such things, came to
think of the Fenelby tariff. It was evident that the penny system
could not be counted on to pile up a sum large enough to see
Bobberts through Yale and leave a margin big enough for him to live
on while he was getting firmly established in his profession,
whatever that profession might be. What was needed in the Fenelby
family was a system that would save money for Bobberts gently and
easily, and that would not be easy to forget nor be too palpable a
strain on the Fenelby income. Something that would make them save in
spite of themselves; not a direct tax, but what you might call an
indirect tax--and right there was where and how the idea came to
Fenelby.

"That's the idea!" he said to Mrs. Fenelby. "That is the very
thing we want! An indirect tax, just as this nation pays its taxes,
and the tariff is the very thing! It's as simple as A B C. The
nation charges a duty on everything that comes into the country;
_we_ will charge a duty on everything that comes into the house,
and the money goes into Bobberts' education fund. We won't miss the
money that way. That's the beauty of an indirect tax: you don't know
you are paying it. The government collects a little on one thing
that is imported, and a little on another, and no one cares,
because the a