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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.

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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.