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Title: Minnie's Pet Parrot

Author: Madeline Leslie

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

Language: English

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[Illustration: "Oh, dear! oh, dear me!" Page 85.]

[Illustration: MINNIE and her PETS
BY MRS. MADELINE LESLIE
MINNIE'S PET PARROT.]

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.

Minnie's Pet Parrot.
Minnie's Pet Cat.
Minnie's Pet Dog.
Minnie's Pet Horse.
Minnie's Pet Lamb.
Minnie's Pet Monkey.

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
be