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00464 If you were with me we would have fine times together at the fireside at night, for we would be by ourselves ----------------
It is raining tonight. It never snows here. A good many boys in California never saw snow except what is far away on the mountains.
The grass is growing nicely, it began to sprout about a month ago the ground is green ----- Crickets grasshoppers can live
all the year where I am, but they cannot jump quite so far in winter The plains where I feed my sheep are all dappled in purple
brown yellow There are lots of grizzly bears in the mountains. Once one came to my camp last spring frightened me. Larks sing
most every morning in California I wish you goodnight a very happy New Year From your uncle John. I will be glad to see
your when I come home