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._
[Illustration: The Dogs' Dinner Party.]
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.
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 ll
2. ABOUT THE CHILDREN 24
3. HOW PHILIP BADBOY BECAME PHILIP WISEMAN 30
4. THE DOG'S DINNER PARTY ll5
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." ll4
PREFACE.
TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS.
In t…