Pearls and PebblesDundurn, 1999/11/15 - 211 ページ 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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... blue sky and soft balmy airs . Yesterday I was wrapped in a thick woollen shawl over my shoulders , and a warm quilted hood on my head . Today my morning wrapper of print- ed calico and my muslin cap are all - sufficient for warmth ...
... blue eggs . She evi- dently felt it better to forsake them unhatched than run any risk of dan- ger to herself or her little brood . This , at any rate , was my own conclusion on the subject , though it may not have been that of the ...
... warm air ; every breath sets the delicate thready stalks in motion , and the sun- beams brighten the flowers to gold against the blue of the May - day sky . Truly the trees are a sight to gladden the eye. 22 PEARLS AND PEBBLES.
... blue eggs , pocketing the affront for the time , but often returning to take a furtive peep at Mistress Cuckoo and hear her scolding cry of " Kow ! kow ! " I had hoped to make myself acquainted with the little brood , but unluckily the ...
... blue , pale lilac and pure white . Delicate in scent , too , they are . The new spring leaves are unfolding , clothed with shining silk and shaded with a purplish cloud in the centre . They are already hiding the old with- ered and ...
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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 |