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I wish you would send me your photograph You ask what are the? Mountains saying - I hear them now only in my notebooks some
of which I have been looking over. but this ranch work now holds me much of my time. I hope however to get off next summer
to the? mountain pastures for a few big unmeasured months. Goodbye. Come again Best wishes for the new year Ever cordially
yours John Muir Martinez, California January 1, 1894. Thank you my dear Cable for your good telling suggestive little
letter It makes me hunger thirst for a talk saunter with you across your Dryad's Green, white now perhaps more than green
yet displaying all the colors of Heaven in varying times tones as the sun sweeps over it. illegible had there is such a breadth
of continent between us. Do you ever walk with Bouroughs, You should sometimes poke him up, for he needs it notwithstanding
he has written so much that is truly delightful. It provokes me to have him picking? puttering