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2 of the trout, venison and wild berries. On one walk we ate five kinds of wild berries huckleberries, black cap raspberries
wild black gooseberries, salmon berries (or thimble berries as underlined: they call them) and blackberries. Of the wild strawberries
we had an abundance. I have seen nine pounds and a half on the table at once. Of huckleberries we had a feast three times
a day for two months. I have seen 42 gallons brought in at one time by those picturesque squaws. Helen does not need reminding
to remember you When we got home from Lissons Elisa took Helen in her lap and asked her if she was glad to be at home. Yes
where is Mr. Muir? and looked keenly and thoughtfully for a reply. 3 She says she wants to go to Lisson s again but she
wants to walk from the cars up to Lisson s the stage jolts so. This morning she was pouring her tea into the saucer, and she
said this is the way Mr. Muir told me how to pour it and was careful to keep the bottom of the cup over the saucer. As for
the other girl she has Mr. Muir s photograph in a frame on one end of her mantel and Mr. Lenger s on the other. We laughed
the other night when we saw a beautiful wreath of white convolvulus and a pink amaryllis twined around your portrait and a
saucer of stewed plums standing like an oblation in front of Lenger s. If you were twenty eight instead of (perhaps) thirty
eight I should 00814