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4 health has been suffering the meanwhile, today I sent him half a dozen bottles of the Doctors wine to revive him. This
notable liberality under the circumstances was caused by 1st His having advised me years ago to take good care of my steps
on the mountains, 2d, to get married, 3d, for his pictures drawn for me of the bliss of having children 4th, for the sake
of our mutual friends, 5th for his good looks bad health, half dozenth because 15 or 20 years ago on a dark night while seeking
one of his patients in the Contra Costa hills he called at the house of Doctor Strentzel for directions was invited in got
a glass of good wine.-A half dozen bottles for a half dozen reasons, that s consistent isn t it . 1 Oonalaska Wednesday,
May 18th 1881. 6.30 P.M. in margin: This is the 5th letter from Oonalaska. Will write 2 more to be sent Dear Louie, The
storm king of the north is again up doing, rolling white combing waves through the jagged straits between this marvellous
chain of islands circling them about with beaten up dashing foam piling yet more more snow on the clustering cloud wraped
peaks. But we are safe snug in this land locked haven enjoying the distant storm roar of wave wind. I have just been on deck,
it is snowing still the deep bass of the gale is sounding on through the mountains How weird wild fascinating all this hearty
work of the storm is to me. I feel a strange love of it all as I gaze shivering up the 5 01002 2 I mean to give a bottle
to the friend of the Captains who is stationed at St Michaels save one bottle for our first contact with the polar ice pack
one with wh to celebrate the hour of our return to home, friends, wives, ba illegible . We had fresh baked, stuffed codfish
for breakfast of wh I ate heartily stuffing and all though the latter was gray soft much burdened with minced onions? , then
I held out my plate for a spoonful of opaque oleaginous gravy. This last paragraph is for Grandmother as a manifestation of
heroic all-enduring all-engulphing health