Pearls and PebblesDundurn, 15 лист. 1999 р. - 211 стор. How fitting to close out the 20th century with a brand new edition of Pearls & Pebbles by the noted chronicler of pioneer life, Catharine Parr Traill. Published in 1894, Pearls & Pebbles is an unusual book with a lasting charm, in which the author's broad focus ranges from the Canadian natural environment to early settlement of Upper Canada. Through Traill's eyes, we see the life of the pioneer woman, the disappearance of the forest, and the corresponding changes in the life of the Native Canadians who have inhabited that forest. Editor Elizabeth Thompson reminds us of the significance of the writings by Traill, the aged author/naturalist, who felt that the hours spent gathering the pebbles and pearls from her notebooks and journals written in the backwoods of Canada was not time wasted. |
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... wing Thy matin hymn to pour , No cuckoo's voice shall shout , " Rejoice ! " For thou art Queen no more . Beneath thy flower - encircled wand No peasant trains advance ; No more they lead with sportive tread merry , merry dance . The The ...
... wings and noiselessly flew onward to take her stand once more on some other prostrate tree . There was a sort of witch - like weirdness about this lonely watcher of the waters , such that I could not help but follow her silent ...
... wings also tipped with white . They looked so tidy and delicate , as if no speck or spot could sully their quakerly neat dress . These birds usually appear in company with the small brown and the chestnut - crowned sparrows , † with ...
... wings . This is a constant habit , and it is very dexterously done . In an instant the birds are again on the wing , to supply the ceaseless cravings of the greedy little ones , who seem ever to be crying out , “ Give , give , ” when ...
... wing feathers . It is a true finch , feeding on seeds , espe- cially those of the thistle . But I am interested in the movements of my little friends . There is evi- dently some demur about the fitness of the syringa bush - they seem to ...
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MORE ABOUT MY FEATHERED FRIENDS | 32 |
A DEFENSE | 45 |
NOTES FROM MY OLD DIARY | 49 |
THOUGHTS ON VEGETABLE INSTINCT | 109 |
SOME CURIOUS PLANTS | 115 |
SOME VARIETIES OF POLLEN | 120 |
THE CRANBERRY MARSH | 123 |
OUR NATIVE GRASSES | 126 |
INDIAN GRASS | 132 |
MOSSES AND LICHENS | 136 |
THE INDIAN MOSS BAG | 141 |
THE SPIDER | 58 |
PROSPECTING AND WHAT I FOUND IN MY DIGGING | 62 |
THE ROBIN AND THE MIRROR | 65 |
IN THE CANADIAN WOODS | 67 |
THE FIRST DEATH IN THE CLEARING | 82 |
ALONE IN THE FOREST | 90 |
ON THE ISLAND OF MINNEWAWA | 99 |
THE CHILDREN OF THE FOREST | 103 |
SOMETHING GATHERS UP THE FRAGMENTS | 144 |
APPENDIX A | 151 |
APPENDIX B | 181 |
APPENDIX C | 183 |
ENDNOTES | 187 |
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS | 199 |
INDEX | 203 |