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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... eyes had nev- er yet looked upon . How lovely it was ! My husband smiled at my enthusiasm . Had he ever beheld so glorious a sunset before ? " Yes , many a time , in Italy and in Switzerland : often quite as beautiful . ” I wished to ...
... eyes closed and I slept so soundly that it was not till the clanging bell gave notice to the passengers that we were nearing the site of the frontier town of Cobourg that I awoke . If the night had been lovely , so also was the dawn ...
... eye . Around us , gilded by the rays of the rising sun , the smooth surface of the lake shone like a sea of gold , the spray from the paddlewheels catch- ing a thousand rainbow hues as it fell . Surpassingly beautiful were the clouds of ...
... female bird . Her bright eyes quickly caught sight of the scraps of muslin , and down she came from her * Yellow Warbler , or Summer Bird - Dendroica œstiva . perch in the bush and carried off the prize to 18 PEARLS AND PEBBLES.
... eye . Sometimes it will fly in through an open * Ruby - throated Hummingbird - Trochilus Colubris ( Linn . ) . Hab . - Eastern North America to the Plains , north to the fur countries , and south , in winter , to Cuba and Veragua . Nest ...
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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 |