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Minnie's Pet Parrot

Minnie's Pet Parrot

Leslie, Madeline

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1979851883
ISBN13: 9781979851886
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 28 2018
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.07 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The object of these little books is not so much to give full, scientific information with regard to the animals of which they treat, as to bring before the child such facts concerning them as shall interest him in their history, awaken a desire to know more of the particular traits of each, and especially lead him to be kind to them as a part of God's creation. Natural history we deem, according to the opinion of an eminent writer, as not only the most captivating of the sciences, but the most humanizing. It is impossible to study the character and habits of the lower animals without imbibing an interest in their wants and feelings. Dr. Chalmers, who was famous for his interest in the brute creation, says, To obtain the regards of man's heart in behalf of the lower animals, we should strive to draw his mind toward them. The poor brutes look, tremble, and give the signs of suffering, as we do. A threatened blow strikes them with terror, and they have the same distortions of agony on the infliction of it. Their blood circulates as ours does. They sicken, and grow feeble with age, and finally die, as we do. They possess also instincts which expose them to suffering in another quarter. The lioness, robbed of her whelps, makes the wilderness ring with her cries; and the little bird, whose tender household has been stolen, fills and saddens all the grove with her pathetic melody.

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