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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... feathers at the tail, and the edges of the long shaft feathers of their 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 ...
... feathers. It is a true finch, feeding on seeds, especially those of the thistle. But I am interested in the movements of my little friends. There is evidently some demur about the fitness of the syringa bush——they seem to be debating ...
... feather or two, built in some low bush near the ground. The eggs are a pale bluish green, three or four in number. Another welcome friend is the Canadian R0bin,* as he is commonly called: but he is only an immigrant. A few venture to ...
... feathers of the wings and tail form a fine contrast to the bright plumage of the neck and back. As the woods are cleared away we lose many of our summer visitors from the other side of the lakes. The tanager's nest is made of strips of ...
... feathers as they sat on the grey branch of an old oak tree that stretched its leafless arms over the cold but still unfrozen waters of the river. “These birds are as full of frolic as little children,” said our host; “by and by they ...
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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 |
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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 |