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    Minnie's Pet Parrot
    Minnie's Pet Parrot
    Minnie's Pet Parrot
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    Minnie's Pet Parrot

    By Madeline Leslie

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

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Minnie's Pet Parrot, by Madeline Leslie

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      Title: Minnie's Pet Parrot

      Author: Madeline Leslie

      Release Date: September 14, 2008 [EBook #26617]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MINNIE'S PET PARROT ***

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      Oh, dear! oh, dear me! Page 85.

      MINNIE’S PET PARROT.

      BY

      MRS. MADELINE LESLIE,

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

      ETC.

      ILLUSTRATED.

      BOSTON:

      LEE AND SHEPARD,

      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.

      INTRODUCTION.

      The object of these little books is not so much to give full, scientific information with regard to the animals of which they treat, as to bring before the child such facts concerning them as shall interest him in their history, awaken a desire to know more of the particular traits of each, and especially lead him to be kind to them as a part of God’s creation.

      Natural history we deem, according to the opinion of an eminent writer, as not only the most captivating of the sciences, but the most humanizing. It is impossible to study the character and habits of the lower animals without imbibing an interest in their wants and feelings.

      Dr. Chalmers, who was famous for his interest in the brute creation, says, To obtain the regards of man’s heart in behalf of the lower animals, we should strive to draw his mind toward them. The poor brutes look, tremble, and give the signs of suffering, as we do. A threatened blow strikes them with terror, and they have the same distortions of agony on the infliction of it. Their blood circulates as ours does. They sicken, and grow feeble with age, and finally die, as we do. They possess also instincts which expose them to suffering in another quarter. The lioness, robbed of her whelps, makes the wilderness ring with her cries; and the little bird, whose tender household has been stolen, fills and saddens all the grove with her pathetic melody.

      The author has been careful to select only facts well authenticated. She takes this opportunity to acknowledge most gratefully her indebtedness to those friends who have contributed original anecdotes which have come under their own observation; and also to state that she has quoted from most of the popular English works on these subjects, prominent among which are Jesse, Richardson, and Hamilton, on dogs; Youatt, the Ettrick Shepherd, and Randall, on sheep; Morris, Brown’s Natural History, Chambers’s Miscellany, etc.

      She has been greatly encouraged, in the

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