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7 tree. since then we have led the pack horses and they have behaved beautifully and in spite of the fact that the Stanford
Berkeley packers are both amateurs we have no sore packed horses and have not had to repack anything since that first day.
I am as black as any Indian you ever saw and I walk and ride a good deal like one but in the evening around the camp fire
we sing college songs and give Berkeley and Stanford yells with a beautiful impartiality while we stir the beans and make
bread. Helen is? very well and happy and is getting illegible . Tomorrow we start up the illegible oga illegible but I dont
know how far we will? go, we will go in easy days trips till we get into the snow. Do please write, and let me know what
you and Papa are doing, and forward any of my letters to Yosemite and mark them hold till called for How I wish that you could
be up here under the sugar pines with the rest of us for it must be pretty hot and dusty and lonesome at home. Please don't
go and get tired out, anyway and 09189