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of honeysuckle bloom almost to the top, the Romneya thicket is like a snowbank. The trees all look fine promise plenty of
fruit, especially peaches. A lot of quails have been roosting in the big rose-clad pine, I think at least one pair have a
nest in it under the rose, a pair of Orioles in the top branches. A pair of sickle-bill thrushes have been here all spring
but I have not yet found their nest, a few saucy English sparrows have their nests equally well concealed. I can't find Millie's
nest either tho she now comes every morning for milk soon the family will be big enough to travel she will bring them to me,
for she likes me is now as tame as old Tom. Last Wednesday I had breakfast before six, the engineers of a long west bound
freight seemed, as they were crossing the viaduct, to think you had got back home, I suppose from seeing the smoke of my fire.
Anyhow they toowhit-toowhooed cockadoodledooed almost all the way from station to tunnel Take good care of poor Wanda try
to make her forget ranches ranching moneymaking be her own dear self again. Ever affectionately your father John Muir