minou

• Maybe we were a little homesick for our own cats, maybe we're just a couple of crazy "cat people" -- whatever the case, we instantly took a shine to minou and spent a great deal of our tour palling around with him and trying to get him to settle down for just an instant so that we could snap his picture. —  ...an endless banquet
• He had even some ideas of a Saviour, and of future rewards and punishments It was the white lady,' said he, 'who taught me this; she teaches Canda and Minou-minou, whose life she saved, and whom she is bringing up to be good like herself I had a great desire," continued Mr. Willis, "to become acquainted with my powerful assistant in the great work of my mission. —  The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island
• This child, then four years and a half old, spoke German well, and knew his alphabet, which Madame Hirtel traced on the floor of the grotto; in this way she taught her daughters to read; they taught Minou-minou, who, in his turn, teaches his parents. —  The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island
• She pointed to me and to herself, as she pronounced the words, and he readily comprehended them, and said to us, with bursts of laughter, showing his large ivory teeth, Canda, mother; Minou-minou, son; Parabery, father; white lady, mother_. —  The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island
• We amused ourselves very well with Minou-minou, while Canda and Madame Emily amused mamma The king came the next day to see his little favourite; he wished me to go with him to another part of the island, where he often went to hunt; but I would not leave mamma and my new friends. —  The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island

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