POP-GUNS.
ONE SERIOUS AND ONE FUNNY.
List of Pop-Gun Series.
- I.—Pop-Guns.
- II.—One Big Pop-Gun.
- III.—All Sorts of Pop-Guns.
- IV.—Funny Pop-Guns.
- V.—Grasshopper Pop-Gun.
- VI.—Post-Office Pop-Guns.
The Dogs’ Dinner Party.
POP-GUNS.
ONE SERIOUS AND ONE FUNNY.
BEING
THE FIRST BOOK OF THE SERIES.
BY
AUNT FANNY,
AUTHOR OF “NIGHTCAPS,” “MITTENS,” “PET BOOKS,”
“WIFE’S STRATEGEM,” ETC.
“Shoot folly as it flies.”
“I love God and little children.”—Richter.
NEW YORK:
SHELDON & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS,
498 & 500 BROADWAY.
1865.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864,
By FANNY BARROW,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.
C. A. ALVORD, STEREOTYPER.
This, and all the books of the series,
I dedicate
to
THOMAS LINCOLN,
THE SON OF
THAT LOYAL, FEARLESS, HONEST MAN,
THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| 1. A Pop-Gun Letter from Aunt Fanny | [11] |
| 2. About the Children | [24] |
| 3. How Philip Badboy became Philip Wiseman | [30] |
| 4. The Dog’s Dinner Party | [115] |
| 5. Conclusion | [147] |
ILLUSTRATIONS.
| PAGE | |
| 1. The Dog’s Dinner Party— | [Frontispiece.] |
| 2. “We all got in the Boat” | [19] |
| 3. Pop-Gun, “Be Good, if you wish to be Happy.” | [30] |
| 4. Little Essie going to meet her Father | [65] |
| 5. The Honorable Mr. Kite | [73] |
| 6. Pop-Gun, “Practise True Politeness.” | [114] |
PREFACE.
TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS.
In these little books, I have complied with a request repeatedly expressed to me, to write stories avowedly for the purpose of “pointing a moral.”
Any one who will take the trouble to look over the “Nightcap,” “Mitten,” or “Sock” books, will see that I have tried to remember this duty; although I own to loving children so tenderly, as to administer my pills, sugar-coated.
Even now, I cannot resist employing the whimsical mask of an odd title; but my dear friends, try my pop-guns, and if then you are convinced that I have sincerely endeavored to “shoot folly as it flies,” pray believe also, that Aunt Fanny well knows that stories called “Pop-Guns,” will make quicker and more enduring marks in the loving hearts of her darlings, the children, than twenty folios, written by a thousand times greater authors, with the dry title of “Moral Lessons for the Young.”
New York, May, 1864.