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OLD PLYMOUTH TRAILS

BY

WINTHROP PACKARD 

Author of "White Mountain Trails," "Literary Pilgrimages of a Naturalist," etc. 

ILLUSTRATED

 

BOSTON
SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1920,
BY WINTHROP PACKARD
PRESS OF GEO. H. ELLIS CO., BOSTON


The Mayflower at Plymouth

 

 

FOREWORD

The author wishes to express his thanks to the editors of the Boston Evening Transcript and the Atlantic Monthly for permission to reprint in this volume matter originally contributed to the columns of that paper and magazine; and to A. S. Burbank of Plymouth, I. Chester Horton, and Howard S. Adams for permission to reproduce various illustrations.

 

 CONTENTS

I.

OLD PLYMOUTH TRAILS

II.

PLYMOUTH MAYFLOWERS

III.

UNBUILDING A BUILDING

IV.

FOREFATHERS' DAY

V.

THE SINGING PINES

VI.

NANTUCKET IN APRIL

VII.

FOOTING IT ACROSS THE CAPE

VIII.

WILD APPLE TREES

IX.

MIDSUMMER MOONLIGHT

X.

TURTLE-HEAD AND JEWEL-WEED

XI.

THE WAY OF A WOODCHUCK

XII.

ALONG THE SALT MARSHES

XIII.

FISHING "DOWN OUTSIDE"

XIV.

VOICES OF THE BROOKSIDE

XV.

GHOSTS OF THE NORTHEASTER

XVI.

JOTHAM STORIES

XVII.

GOOD-BYE TO SUMMER

XVIII.

MYSTICAL PASTURES

XIX.

WHITE PINE GROVES

XX.

THE PASTURE IN NOVEMBER

XXI.

RED CEDAR LORE

XXII.

AUNT SUE'S SNOWBANK

XXIII.

SPORTS OF THE WINTER WOODS

XXIV.

COASTING ON PONKAPOAG

XXV.

PICKEREL FISHING

XXVI.

YULE FIRES

 

 

ILLUSTRATIONS
 

THE MAYFLOWER AT PLYMOUTH

THE FIRST PILGRIM TRAIL

PLYMOUTH AS THE PILGRIMS MADE IT

LEYDEN STREET TO-DAY FROM BURIAL HILL

BIRDS OF THE PLYMOUTH WOODS, WISE AND OTHERWISE

BILLINGTON PATH ALONG THE BORDER OF "BILLINGTON SEA"

THE STERN AND ROCK-BOUND COAST WHICH GREETED THE PILGRIMS

BAYBERRY AND PITCH PINE ALONG A NANTUCKET TRAIL

A NANTUCKET LANE

ALONG A BYWAY OF THE CAPE

DUSTY MILLER BLOSSOMING AMONG THE CAPE DUNES

THE SUN SIFTING AND WINNOWING HIS GOLD FOR SUNSET

SUNRISE OVER THE POND

ROUNDING THE BREAKWATER AT NANTUCKET WITHIN CALL OF THE OLD LISBON BELL

CAPTAIN'S HILL FROM MARSH MARGIN

ALONG THE SALT MARSHES

OUTWARD BOUND IN PLYMOUTH HARBOR GEESE ON THE SAND SPIT AT PLYMOUTH

WILD GEESE IN FLIGHT OVER THE POND

THE FOX THAT SLIPS ALONG THE WINDING PATHS AT DAWN

A CAPE COD CEDAR CENTURIES OLD

THE PINES IN WINTER

DEER IN THE WINTER WOODS

PICKEREL FROM AN OLD COLONY POND

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