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    Aunt Amy or, How Minnie Brown learned to be a Sunbeam
    Aunt Amy or, How Minnie Brown learned to be a Sunbeam
    Aunt Amy or, How Minnie Brown learned to be a Sunbeam
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    Aunt Amy or, How Minnie Brown learned to be a Sunbeam

    By Daniel Wise

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Aunt Amy or, How Minnie Brown learned to be a Sunbeam - Daniel Wise

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Aunt Amy, by Francis Forrester

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Aunt Amy

      or, How Minnie Brown learned to be a Sunbeam

      Author: Francis Forrester

      Release Date: April 5, 2008 [EBook #24991]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AUNT AMY ***

      Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

      http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images

      generously made available by The Internet Archive/American

      Libraries.)

      My Uncle Toby’s Library

      Aunt Amy.

      AUNT AMY;

      OR,

      HOW MINNIE BROWN LEARNED TO BE

      A SUNBEAM.

      BY

      FRANCIS FORRESTER, ESQ.

      AUTHOR OF ARTHUR’S TEMPTATION, MINNIE BROWN, ETC.

      BOSTON:

      GEO. C. RAND, 3 CORNHILL.

      WM. J. REYNOLDS & CO.

      1853.

      Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by

      Daniel Wise,

      In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

      STEREOTYPED AT THE

      BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

      PRESS OF G. C. RAND, CORNHILL.

      AUNT AMY.

      As Minnie Brown was walking one day along the principal street of Rosedale, she met Arthur Ellerslie, who said to her,—

      Minnie, there is a letter in the post office for you.

      A letter for me! exclaimed the little girl, her bright eyes flashing at the bare idea of a letter being sent to her.

      "Yes, there is a letter for you, Minnie. I saw it myself in the post office window," replied Arthur.

      O, I’m so glad! It must be from my aunt Amy. I will run and get it; and away she skipped to the post office, with a step as light as a fawn’s, and a heart as cheerful as merry music. It was very pleasant to see her standing before the little window of the post office, her face wreathed in smiles, and her hand stretched out, as she said,—

      Please, sir, give me my letter.

      Yes, Miss Minnie, you shall have your letter, replied the good-natured man who kept the office, and who seemed, by his looks, to share the child’s delight, as he handed her the letter.

      Thank you, sir, said Minnie; and then, with swift feet, she ran into the street, and almost flew along the sidewalk. When she reached home, she was nearly out of breath. Finding her mother in the parlor, she exclaimed,—

      O mother! I’ve got a letter! I’ve got a letter! and throwing her bonnet on the chair, she eagerly opened the letter, and, after looking at it a moment, cried out,—

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