Pearls and PebblesDundurn, 1999. 11. 15. - 211페이지 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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... head was conferred the May crown , and I was duly greeted as Queen of May . Surely no queen could have been more joyous or proud of her honors : my crown , a circlet of flowers , my sceptre a flower - wreathed wand of hazel , and my ...
... wreaths the woodbine weaves . The cowslip bends her golden head , And daisies deck the lea ; But ah ! no more in grove or bower The Queen of May we'll see . " SUNSET AND SUNRISE ON LAKE ONTARIO : A REMINISCENCE * 8 PEARLS AND PEBBLES.
... head pillowed on husband's folded plaid , too much delighted with my surroundings to leave the deck for the cabin and the sleeping berth below . Scene Among the Thousand Isles , by W.H. Bartlett ,. Brockville , St. Lawrence , by W.H ...
... head . Today my morning wrapper of print- ed calico and my muslin cap are all - sufficient for warmth ; hood and shawl are laid aside . Our spring is unusually late this year ; the leaves are not unfolded . I lie upon the couch on the ...
... head , flesh - colored bills and legs and feet , with some snow - white feathers at the tail , and the edges of the long shaft feathers of their wings also tipped with white . They looked so tidy and delicate , as if no speck or spot ...
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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 |