])©nt yon think you have had enough for one time? I will 
let you off now, yoti have been very patient, but there is still a 
little more to come, though I promise there will be no more war talk. 
I found a book a short time ago with some specimens which I gathered 
along the road this summer and pressed in a magazine. You may be 
abtbe to recognize them and perhaps they may be of interest. One 
of the prettiest flowers you win find on page 275. It is the onion 
and grows in great patches which make very handsome spots of color. 
This came from near Pullman, as in fact, I think, all of them did. 
T will send you with this a couple of folders of Portland and vi¬ 
cinity wftioh have some very fine pictures of the various points 
of interest. My kindest regards and best wishes for a Merry Christ¬ 
mas and a Happy and prosperous Hew Year. 
very sincerely yours 
