Pearls and PebblesDundurn, 15 лист. 1999 р. - 240 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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... leaves flutter in the wind ; a “ kindly little evergreen ” is discovered “ [ c ] reeping over little hillocks in shady ground . ” The specta- tor's senses are bombarded by the colours , Smells , and sounds of a beau- tiful , but ...
... leaves , decayed branches and effete bark and fruitful seed . ” Now that it has fallen , and as it decomposes , it provides a home for lichens and mosses . Finally , it will become a “ rich black vegetable mould . ” The process of ...
... leaves ; The primrose shows her gentle face , Her wreaths the Woodbine weaves . The cowslip bends her golden head , And daisies deck the lea ; But ah ! no more in grove or bower The Queen of May we'll see . 6 SUNSET AND SUNRISE ON LAKE ...
... leaves are not unfolded . I lie upon the couch on the veranda basking in the delicious warmth of the sun's rays as ... leaf and the plum and apple trees in full bloom . We are three weeks later this year . Well , it is folly to complain ...
... leaves and buds and blossoms are all before us . It is a pleasure to lie here and watch the birds as they flit to and fro so gaily among the trees and garden shrubs , carolling and twittering in the unalloyed gladness of their nature ...
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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 |