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    Minnie's Pet Lamb
    Minnie's Pet Lamb
    Minnie's Pet Lamb
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    Minnie's Pet Lamb

    By Madeline Leslie

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

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      Title: Minnie's Pet Lamb

      Author: Madeline Leslie

      Release Date: September 14, 2008 [EBook #26619]

      Language: English

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      Nannie! Nannie! come and get your breakfast! P. 16.

      MINNIE’S PET LAMB.

      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 LAMB.

      CHAPTER I.

      NANNIE AND THE PONY.

      In another book, about Minnie’s pet pony, I have already given you some account of Nannie, her pet lamb.

      This had all the peculiarities of the South Down, to which breed of sheep it belonged. It had full, bright, black eyes, a small head, and a brownish-gray face and legs. Its back was straight and wide, and covered with fine, short wool, which protected it from the cold.

      When Mr. Lee first brought the lamb home, it cried, or bleated, continually. It was placed in a pen close by the stall where Star, the Shetland pony, was kept, and, the next day after it came, managed to get over the light railing which separated them, and creep up close to the animal.

      I don’t know what Star thought of the little creature; but I suppose he was pleased to have a companion, for when the hostler went to feed him, he found them on very social terms. After this, the lamb’s affection for Star grew so strong that it soon forgot all about its mother and its old friends, and gave its whole heart to the new one. The pony returned the love, and was as kind to his little companion as he could possibly be. He never seemed better pleased than when the lamb was standing quietly by his side, eating the hay or turnips with which it was fed, or when, its hunger being appeased, it lay down close under his nose, and chewed its cud by the hour together.

      At such times, the pony was careful not to step on it, or injure it in any way, but expressed his delight in its society by little short neighs, which were sometimes answered by a responsive note.

      In a few days they understood each other perfectly, and were as well acquainted, and as fond of each other, as if they had lived together all their lives.

      Mr. Lee, who was visiting Minnie’s pets with his little daughter, said, one morning, it would never do for the lamb to stand in the stall, so closely confined from the out-door air; and he directed John to turn it out into the barn yard for a few hours every day.

      The man did so; but the poor lamb bleated at this separation from its friend, until the groom happened to think such a change would do Star good too.

      As soon as the lamb saw the horse coming through

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