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Title: Old Plymouth Trails

Author: Winthrop Packard

Release Date: February 11, 2010 [EBook #31250]

Language: English

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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

[Frontispiece: The Mayflower at Plymouth]

Copyright, 1920,
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

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