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    Minnie's Pet Horse
    Minnie's Pet Horse
    Minnie's Pet Horse
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    Minnie's Pet Horse

    By Madeline Leslie

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Minnie's Pet Horse - Madeline Leslie

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

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      Title: Minnie's Pet Horse

      Author: Madeline Leslie

      Release Date: September 14, 2008 [EBook #26620]

      Language: English

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

      Produced by Julia Miller and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

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      Transcriber’s Note

      Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of corrections is found at the end of the text.

      MINNIE AND HER PONY.

      MINNIE’S PET HORSE.

      BY

      MRS. MADELINE LESLIE,

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

      ETC.

      ILLUSTRATED.

      BOSTON:

      LEE AND SHEPARD,

      Successors to Phillips, Sampson & Co.

      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 HORSE.

      CHAPTER I.

      THE HORSE AND THE DOG.

      In the other books of this little series, I have told you about Minnie’s pet parrot, her pet cat, and her pet dog. In this one, I shall give you an account of her pet pony, and also tell you anecdotes of other horses.

      Star was the name she gave her Shetland pony, I suppose because he had a white star on his forehead, which showed very distinctly from the contrast with his dark bay hair.

      He was about three feet high, with a short neck and a long black tail. He was very affectionate and gentle, loving his little mistress, and neighing pleasantly whenever he heard her voice.

      The little girl seldom went out to the stable without asking the cook for a piece of bread for Star. Sometimes she did not give it to him at once, but hid it under her apron. The pony soon learned this trick, and, if the bread was not forthcoming, lifted the apron with his teeth, whining like a child, until she put it in his mouth.

      During the summer months, Star was kept in the pasture, where the grass was very green. When he was thirsty, there was a clear, running brook at the end of the pasture, where he could go and drink. If the weather was very hot, he liked to go and stand in the water and cool himself.

      Star had a companion to stay with him in the pasture, and help him eat the young, sweet clover. This was Nannie, the lamb, who never, if she could help it, was out of his sight for a moment. Wherever Star went, Nannie tried to go too; or, if she could not, she bleated continually, refusing to eat until his return.

      Mr. Lee’s place contained near a hundred acres. There was a farm house about two hundred rods from the mansion, and a nicely gravelled road leading past the lawn through the garden, connecting them.

      Here, almost every pleasant morning, Minnie could be seen trotting her little pony back and forth, and Nannie running along by his side. After a few months, Star became so well accustomed to his young mistress, that he would walk by himself from the stable door, when the groom had buckled on the saddle, to

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