Pearls and PebblesDundurn, 15.11.1999 - 211 Seiten 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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... 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 ; hood and shawl ...
... soft materials are employed for the cradles of the tiny little brood . What brings these tiny birds back to the old summer haunts ? is it mem- ory ? Or is it that unerring , mysterious power that we term INSTINCT , which , acting like ...
... soft bits of muslin and gay scraps of colored prints ; so her ladyship set to work very diligently to repair the now dilapidated nest with the addition of dried fibrous roots , and grass , moss and all sorts of trash , which , with the ...
... soft rounded head , the snowy whiteness of her breast and her delicate fawn - brown back and wings . The silkiness of the plumage contrasted finely with the dark horny bill and full black eyes . The shallow saucer - shaped nest was not ...
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Inhalt
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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 |