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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... summer haunts ? is it mem- ory ? Or is it that unerring , mysterious power that we term INSTINCT , which , acting like an irresistible impulse , guides them the right way , straight to the harbor where they would be ? Is it this that ...
... summer our wrens raised three successive broods . I do not think the number exceeded five little birds each time . This year the time will not admit of an extra hatch . The wrens usually linger with us till the end of August , but some ...
... summer birds flash past me , evidently bent on important business . They are probably seeking a convenient bush where to commence the building of a nest for the reception of the unknown family . I can fancy the lively discussion that is ...
... summer visitants in Canada . I have fully satisfied myself that the harsh , wild squalling cry attrib- uted to the parent birds is that of the young birds when the mother has forsaken them , leaving them to shift for themselves , and ...
... summers ago a Black - billed Cuckoo * visited my garden and made her shallow nest of dried roots and hay on the flat branch of a white spruce , not more than six feet from the ground , so that she was easily seen as she sat within it ...
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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 |