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1 Dear Annie It is not a very long, time since Merrill I paid you a visit but now I am away in California - I hardly ever
see anybody? sometimes I am lonesome. I wish you could come to my shanty, I would tell you about the flower the mountains
the birds you would tell me all about lessons everything about illegible lia - Most of the winter days here are fine warm
sunny just like summer days - The stars in California twinkle more than the stars that are above Wisconsin - I had a nice
walk about a month ago from beyond the Tuolumne river, the Traills? for miles were all 2 strewed with quartz crystals
- they made the ground look starry as the sky. I looked at them so much that I saw the glinting flashing of thousands of them
after I shut my eyes to sleep. Here is a precious little fern that I found far up in the Yo-Semite rocks, the day before I
found it I was at what is called the Ribbon falls, I went too near got all wet in the spray, it made me sick, when I was setting
at the campfire that night I looked up past the top of the rocks happened to see two of the stars that belong to the great
bear they made me think of home, then I was loney. Now whenever I feell bad I always find something good to make up for it,
so sure enough next day I found this delicate little creature