The Cheerful Smugglers

The Cheerful Smugglers

Bobberts was the baby, and ever since Bobberts was bornand 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 [Pg 4]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 [Pg 5]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 taxand [Pg 6]right there was where and how the idea came to Fenelby. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 27317
Author: Butler, Ellis Parker
Release Date: Nov 23, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Preston, May Wilson, 1873-1949