Ellis Parker Butler is best remembered for the short story ‘Pigs Is Pigs’ (1905), but he was a prolific and reliably entertaining comic writer whose output sparkles with good humour and inventive plotting. The Cheerful Smugglers is a light, fast-moving comedy about well-meaning amateurs who find themselves considerably deeper into customs evasion than they ever anticipated or intended.
Breezy and thoroughly entertaining from first page to last, this is Butler doing exactly what he did best: taking a perfectly harmless and reasonable situation and letting it escalate cheerfully into chaos. Download this free EPUB and smile at the cheerful criminals and their problems.