The paths to yesterday memories of old St. John's, Newfoundland; including a number of typical Newfoundland poems, each from the gifted pen of a Terra Novian

• Main Author: Byrnes, John Maclay
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Meador 1931
• Subjects: Newfoundland and Labrador > Description and travel; Newfoundland and Labrador > Social life and customs; St. John's (N.L.) > Description and travel; Newfoundland; Newfoundland studies
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns2/id/87598

The Paths To Yesterday Dedication -- Preface -- Mrs. Morressy's spruce beer; the old well; lonely Belvidere -- The barrens; cricket and cricketers -- Memories of Burton's Pond; Boyhood dreams -- Memories of a day's trouting -- Long Pond Gullies; the old swimming hole; Nagle's Hill; The sand pits; Leary's River -- Berry picking -- The dance on Leary's bridge; old time melodies -- Summer night gossip; the games of our youth; rhymes of other days -- The day of the races -- Topsail; Kitty Gaul; Anne's; Dunn's; Daily's; Boggy Hall -- Dreams; Southside Hill; a typical Newfoundland skipper; Bells of St. Thomas'; Loneliness and wanderlust -- Plays and players in the old T. A. Hall -- St. John's amateurs; The Mikado in blackface -- Emulating a contortionist; a painful episode -- Betrayed by my lady nicotine; a novel punishment -- The Christian brothers -- Love's young dream; a damp wooing -- Quaint St. John's characters; Murray's merry Monday morning -- Cold tongue -- Odors memory -- Old St. John's apothecaries; black draught; cobweb cure -- The wake -- A specialist in warts -- Haunted houses; Friendly hall; Old Petty Harbor road; Dead Man's Pond; Father Forrestal's adventure -- The beloved pastor of Portugal Cove -- Old St. John's firms; old time streets and lanes -- Voices from the past -- The blackman line; the first run -- Winter in St. John's; the first snowfall -- Yankee clipper vs. catamaran -- Old time Newfoundland Christmas -- The night before Christmas -- A merry Christmas; come all ye's; old time songs. The Owld Leather Britches -- Lovely Wexford Town -- Napoleon's Grave -- The Little Brown Cot on the Hill -- Sweet Belle Mahone -- Christmas morning -- The wren; St. Stephen's day -- New Year's hospitality; the arches -- The spring of the year -- Bazzing marbles; glass alleys; Buckley ice-copying -- Swoilers and skinners -- Native hospitality; simplicity -- The moon on a stick; Spring of the Wadhams -- Sublime faith; priest and parson; sanctity of marriage; generous charity -- A few final recollections; slang; ...