BY WINTHROP PACKARD
PRESS OF GEO. H. ELLIS CO., BOSTON
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
CHAPTER
[CHAPTER I OLD PLYMOUTH TRAILS]
[CHAPTER II PLYMOUTH MAYFLOWERS]
[CHAPTER III UNBUILDING A BUILDING]
[CHAPTER IV FOREFATHERS' DAY]
[CHAPTER V THE SINGING PINES]
[CHAPTER VI NANTUCKET IN APRIL]
[CHAPTER VII FOOTING IT ACROSS THE CAPE]
[CHAPTER VIII WILD APPLE TREES]
[CHAPTER IX MIDSUMMER MOONLIGHT]
[CHAPTER X TURTLE-HEAD AND JEWEL-WEED]
[CHAPTER XI THE WAY OF A WOODCHUCK]
[CHAPTER XII ALONG THE SALT MARSHES]
[CHAPTER XIII FISHING "DOWN OUTSIDE"]
[CHAPTER XIV VOICES OF THE BROOKSIDE]
[CHAPTER XV GHOSTS OF THE NORTHEASTER]
[CHAPTER XVI JOTHAM STORIES]
[CHAPTER XVII GOOD-BYE TO SUMMER]
[CHAPTER XVIII MYSTICAL PASTURES]
[CHAPTER XIX WHITE PINE GROVES]
[CHAPTER XX THE PASTURE IN NOVEMBER]
[CHAPTER XXI RED CEDAR LORE]
[CHAPTER XXII AUNT SUE'S SNOWBANK]
[CHAPTER XXIII SPORTS OF THE WINTER WOODS]
[CHAPTER XXIV COASTING ON PONKAPOAG]
[CHAPTER XXV PICKEREL FISHING]
[CHAPTER 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]