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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... thou canst not see . " Further , she resolves that the cycle of nature has been designed solely to prepare the soil " to receive the grain for the life - sustaining bread " of the emigrant and his family . And she reinforces her ...
... thou virgin Queen of May , Thy ancient reign is o'er ; Thy vot❜ries now are lowly laid , And thou art Queen no more . Fling down , fling down , thy flow'ry crown , Thy sceptre cast away , For ne'er again on vale or plain They'll hail ...
... thou must die . " -Herbert1 JUST such a day as holy as George Herbert describes above is this sweet May morning . But what a change since yesterday in the temperature of the air ! Then chilling northeast winds , grey cloudy sky , cold ...
... Thou art their soul the impulse is divine ! Nature lifts loud to Thee her happy voice , And calls her caverns to resound Thy praise ; Thy name is heard amid her pathless ways , And e'en her senseless things in Thee rejoice . O God ...
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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 |