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OLD PLYMOUTH TRAILS

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