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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... thing, the anecdote becomes personal when Traill reveals that she too has lost infant children (Mary Ellen and Eleanor): “I did my best to comfort her, although I had not then known the pang of a bereaved mother's heart. God gave me ...
... things, even they shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord.” Catharine Traill may have satisfied herself with this explanation, but a contemporary reader is more likely to be swayed by her ecological distrust of change than by ...
... thing, Traill's explanatory footnotes have been kept as in the original. For another, when Traill cites other writers, whether poetry or prose, their words are set off from the text by means of quotation marks; this practice has been ...
... things sweet and fair that charmed us in our youthful days; it recalls the joys of infancy when we filled our laps with flowers. We hear again the song of blackbird, linnet and robin, and the far—away call of that mystery of childhood ...
... thing that I noted was the motionless figure of a heron standing on a fallen cedar overhanging the margin of the water. When our approach disturbed her night watch for prey, she spread her grey wings and noiselessly flew onward to take ...
Зміст
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 |