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    Minnie's Pet Cat
    Minnie's Pet Cat
    Minnie's Pet Cat
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    Minnie's Pet Cat

    By Madeline Leslie

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Minnie's Pet Cat - Madeline Leslie

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      Title: Minnie's Pet Cat

      Author: Madeline Leslie

      Release Date: May 4, 2009 [EBook #28682]

      Language: English

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      MINNIE PLAYING WITH FIDELLE. Page 10.

      MINNIE’S PET CAT.

      BY

      MRS. MADELINE LESLIE,

      AUTHOR OF THE LESLIE STORIES, TIM, THE SCISSORS-GRINDER,

      ETC.

      ILLUSTRATED.

      BOSTON:

      LEE AND SHEPARD,

      Successors to Phillips, Sampson & Co.

      1864.

      Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by

      A. R. BAKER,

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

      ELECTROTYPED AT THE

      BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

      TO MY YOUNG FRIEND,

      HENRY FOWLE DURANT, JR.

      These Little Volumes

      ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED

      BY THE AUTHOR,

      IN THE EARNEST HOPE THAT THEY MAY INCREASE IN HIM THAT

      LOVE OF NATURE AND OF RURAL LIFE WHICH HAS EVER

      EXERTED SO SALUTARY AN INFLUENCE IN THE

      FORMATION OF THE CHARACTERS OF

      THE WISE AND GOOD.

      MINNIE AND HER PETS.

      MINNIE’S PET CAT.

      CHAPTER I.

      THE LOVING PUSS.

      Fidelle, Minnie’s second pet, was a beautiful tortoise-shell cat.

      She was an elegant creature. Her fur was of moderate length, of pure black, white, and reddish orange. Her eyes were large, bright, and affectionate in expression. Her form was delicate, and her motions active. In character, she was the most attached, graceful little puss I ever knew.

      The moment Fidelle heard Minnie’s voice, she walked to the door, and was ready to welcome her, rubbing her glossy sides against the child’s feet, and making little soft notes of pleasure.

      Sometimes Minnie had the headache, or was tired, and lay upon the sofa; when she did so, Fidelle loved to jump up and walk softly over the little figure until she came to her mistress’s face, when she quietly lay down near by, or sometimes licked her hand lovingly. She never did this to Mrs. Lee, or any other member of the family.

      Fidelle was an active puss, and often went bird-catching, or mousing during the night; but generally, when Minnie opened the door of her chamber in the morning, there was Fidelle ready to receive her.

      During the warm weather, it was Minnie’s habit to take an early stroll with her father through the grounds, or to accompany him to the nursery, garden, and orchards, when he went to give orders to the men who worked for him.

      On such occasions, Fidelle was always on hand, sometimes running along by her side, and then skipping to the top of a tree, or gamboling on before her.

      When Minnie was very small, she often used to hug the kitten so tightly as, no doubt, to cause the little creature pain; and then, in running around the room after it, the young miss used to catch it by the tail; but Fidelle never resisted, nor, if hurt, revenged herself. She seemed to understand that Minnie loved her, and that it was her

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