Transcriber’s Note
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of correctionsis found at the end of the text.
Three people looking at a parrot perched on the back of a chair“Oh, dear! oh, dear me!” Page 85.
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A seated girl, holding a cat, surrounded by a pony, monkey, lamb, two dogs, and a parrot
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MINNIE’S PET PARROT.
BY

MRS. MADELINE LESLIE,
AUTHOR OF “THE LESLIE STORIES,” “TIM, THE SCISSORS-GRINDER,”
ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD,
1864.
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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 ofMassachusetts.
ELECTROTYPED AT THE
BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.
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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.
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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.
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INTRODUCTION.
The object of these little books is not so much to give full, scientificinformation with regard to the animals of which they treat, as to bringbefore the child such facts concerning them as shall interest him intheir history, awaken a desire to know more of the particular traits ofeach, and especially lead him to be kind to them as a part of God’screation.
Natural history we deem, according to the opinion of an eminent writer,as “not only the most captivating of the sciences, but the most[8]humanizin                        
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