LITERARY PILGRIMAGES OF 

 A NATURALIST 



I 



IN OLD MARSHFIELD 



Glimpses of the Country about the 

 Daniel Webster Place 



Down in Marshfield early morning brings to 

 the roadside troops of blue-eyed chicory blooms, 

 shy memories of fair Pilgrim children who once 

 trod these ways. They do not stay long with the 

 wanderer, these early morning blooms. The 

 turmoil and heat of the mid-summer day close 

 them, but the dreams they bring ramble with the 

 roads in happy freedom from all care among 

 drumlins and kames, vanishing in the flooding 

 heat of some wood-enclosed pasture corner to 

 spring laughingly back again as the way tops a 

 hill and gives a glimpse of the purple velvet of the 

 sea. No wonder Peregrine White, the first fair- 

 skinned child born in New England, strayed from 



