PEARLS AND PEBBLES

Toronto: Natural Heritage Books - Dundurn Group, 1999. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. (xxiii) 211 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs and art. Catharine Parr Traill nee Strickland, was a pioneer author and botanist, the sister of Susanna Moodie and Samuel Strickland, both of whom were significant writers in early Canada. The Contents are: Pleasant Days of My Childhood; Sunset and Sunrise on Lake Ontario: A Reminiscence; Memories of a May Morning; Another May Morning; More About My Feathered Friends; The English Sparrow: A Defense; Notes from My Old Diary; The Spider; Prospecting and What I Found in My Digging; The Robin and the Mirror; In the Canadian Woods; The First Death in the Clearing; Alone in the Forest; On the Islands of Minnewawa; The Children of the Forest; Thoughts on Vegetable Instinct; Some Curious Plants; Some Varieties of Pollen; The Cranberry Marsh; Our Native Grasses; Indian Grass; Mosses and Lichens; The Indian Moss Bag; and Something Gathers Up the Fragments; followed by: Appendix A: Biographical Sketch of Mary Agnes FitzGibbon; Appendix B: Catharine Parr Traill: A List of Important Dates; Appendix C: Family Tree; and an index..