Chapter I: 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 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