Pearls and PebblesHow 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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... GRASSES 126 INDIAN GRASS 132 MOSSES AND LICHENS 136 THE INDIAN MOSS BAG 141 SOMETHING GATHERS UP THE FRAGMENTS 144 APPENDIX A 151 INTRODUCTORY NOTE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY MARY AGNES FITZGIBBON APPENDIX B 181 CATHARINE PARR TRAILL : A ...
... grass , and fill our hands with bluebells and cowslips . But we have in Canada few such May days as Shakespeare , Milton and Herrick describe ; here too often it may be said that " Winter , lingering , chills the lap of May . " The ...
... grass . The banks of the stream were lined with sweet purple violets , primros- es , and the little sun - bright celandine ; and later on there was good store of wild strawberries , which we gathered and strung upon a stalk of to carry ...
... grass just below the syringa bush , where the foundation of a nest had just been laid by the female bird . Her bright eyes quickly caught sight of the scraps of muslin , and down she came from her * Yellow Warbler , or Summer Bird ...
... grass . The work of building went on so rapidly that in the course of two hours she had constructed a most delicate and dainty looking snow - white nest , and the pair took possession of this novel - looking house with festal song . But ...
Contents
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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 |