Minnie's Pet Lamb

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of corrections is found at the end of the text. “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 Parrot. Minnie’s Pet Cat. Minnie’s Pet Dog. Minnie’s Pet Horse. Minnie’s Pet Lamb. Minnie’s Pet Monkey. MINNIE’S PET LAMB. 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…