Minnie's Pet Parrot

Transcriber’s Note



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.