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The Mayflower at Plymouth

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

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