Pearls and PebblesDundurn, 15 nov 1999 - 211 pagina's 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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... watch over the baby , has ties with Easter and Christian symbol- ism . In this fashion , an historical sketch takes on added significance , becoming at once personal / autobiographical and religious / allegorical . A similar compounding ...
... watch eager- ly for the appearance of these beautiful scarlet birds ... As the woods are cleared away we lose many of our summer visitors from the other side of the lakes . Sadly , neither at the time of her writing nor today is there ...
... watch the advance and recoil of the waves , the busy fishermen among their nets and boats , and the groups of happy children on the sands ; but there was a greater fascination still to us in the search for treasures left by the flood ...
... watch for the day that even our dreams were haunted by the anticipated pleasure , for I remember my mother telling of being startled in the night by seeing the door softly open and a small white - robed figure glide up to the bedside ...
... watch the dimmed day deepen into even , The flush of sunset melt in pallid gold ; While the pale planets blossom out in heaven ; To feel the tender silence trance and hold The night's great heartbeats ; soul - washed , nature - shriven ...
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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 |