CONTENTS. 



a Reminiscence 



My Digging 



Introductory Note .... 



Biographical Sketch 



Preface '.. . j 



Pleasant Days of My Childhood . 



Sunset and Sunrise on Lake Ontario : 



Memories of a May Morning 



Another May Morning . 



More About My Feathered Friends 



The English Sparrow : a Defence 



Notes from My Old Diary . 



The Spider 



Prospecting, and What I Pound in 



The Robin and the Mirror 



In the Canadian Woods 



The Pirst Death in the Clearing 



Alone in the Forest 



On the Island ofMinnewawa . 



The Children of the Porest . 



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 .... 



Something Gathers Up the Pragments 



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* ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Portrait of Mrs. Traill . 

 Gun Hill, Southwold Beach 

 "ReydonHall" .... 

 " Westove," Residence of Mrs. Traill . 

 " Polly Cow's Island " . . 



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