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Title: The First Little Pet Book with Ten Short Stories in Words of Three and Four Letters

Author: Frances Elizabeth Barrow

Release Date: March 3, 2010 [EBook #31483]

Language: English

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THE FIRST
LITTLE PET BOOK,
WITH
TEN SHORT TALES,
IN WORDS OF THREE AND FOUR LETTERS.

BY
AUNT FANNY,
Author of "Night Caps," "Mittens," "Wife's Stratagem," etc., etc.

"I LOVE GOD AND LITTLE CHILDREN."--RICHTER.

NEW YORK:
JAMES O'KANE, PUBLISHER.
1867.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by
W. H. KELLEY AND BROTHER,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United
States for the Southern District of New-York.

THIS
LITTLE PET BOOK
IS DEDICATED TO
Charlotte, Mary, and Willie,
THREE DEAR LITTLE CHILDREN,
ABOUT WHOM I TOLD FUNNY STORIES IN TWO OF THE
"MITTEN" BOOKS.

[Illustration: "Why, Hal, did you get my pie?"--P. 14.]

PREFACE TO MOTHERS.

Many and many a time mothers have come to the author with the piteous
plaint: "O Aunt Fanny! we are perfectly worn out with your
'Nightcaps,' 'Mittens,' and 'Socks;' we have read them to our little
children, who have not yet conquered the compound mysteries of the
alphabet, until we know them by heart; do, _do_ write some books in
words of one syllable, which they can read for themselves."

Now, I wonder if these good mothers can conceive what it is to write
a story in words of one syllable, and make it interesting, sensible,
and grammatical? If they can not, I entreat them to try a page or two
of this utterly distracting style of composition; they will very soon
have a realizing sense of the pleasing emotions of a lunatic confined
in a strait-jacket. Above al