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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... was so ill that few thought she would recover , Jessie's grief was great . She recalled over and over again the kindness to her in the bush in those early days . A portrait of pioneer life emerges in these pages ; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION XV.
... , " dated 1888 , Traill notices the delayed arrival of snow sparrows , crossbills and tom - tits in spring , and blames the absence on environmental change : In mild winters they were wont to come as early EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION xvii.
... early as the middle of March , but that was in the early days of the colony , when the thick forests gave warm shelter to the wild birds ; but since the trees are fast disappearing the snow sparrows and crossbills ( Loxia curvirostra ) ...
... early spring flowers — must be gathered while the dew was still upon them , or the rites lost half their virtue . We were always up before the sun , and so eagerly did we watch for the day that even our dreams were haunted by the ...
... early dawn , To bind her hair with chaplets fair Torn from the blossomed thorn . No lark shall spring on dewy wing Thy matin hymn to pour , No cuckoo's voice shall shout , " Rejoice ! " For thou art Queen no more . Beneath thy flower ...
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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 |