Bernie's White Chicken (The Pansy Series)

Early reprint, originally published in 1867 by the Western Tract and Book Society. Publisher's green cloth binding with mounted color lithograph removed from later series issues. Cloth 16mo, 178pp. Very Good with rubbing and bumping to extremities, binding cocked, rear hinge starting. Signature Mabel Cobb to ffep. Illustrations throughout text. Should unwitting wrongdoers be punished? Begins with a lesson for Bernie to be patient with her chicken, since they don't speak the same language. "Why, suppose some little girl had slapped you, and shaken you, and you hadn't the least idea what it was all for; how do you feel about it afterward?" (17)