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Wednesday Sept 15

Same -- My breath smells & tastes bad today -- Eyes a little better so I didnt wear my eye protecting glasses today -- Morning I found that my three Woodbury jars filled with catawba, muscat grapes, and crab apples & muscat grapes were working -- Think would have bursted soon -- Had to dump them down privy -- Bottled off 33 bottles green syrup I made yesterday -- 4 lbs white sugar to little over 1 quart of

Green syrup -- J C Morrill comes --

water -- Regular proportion is 3 3/4 lbs to 1 quart -- makes 2 quarts green syrup -- Mix in water, & put on stove, warm or otherwise -- Watch carefully, & minute it come to boil take it off -- Let it rest a few minutes -- skin if necessary, and strain through flannel -- I made three bottles of it -- About 11, just as I had got things straightened up in my room, somebody knocked at door -- Opened it and there was my old friend and fellow old time ranch neighbor in the Berryessa district Santa Clara County, California, away back in 1860 or thereabouts, J C Morrill -- Looked just as natural as life -- Hadn't seen him for 23 years, but knew him at a glance, & we

My Old Friend J C Morrill --

affiliated at once -- Had long chat -- Went down together -- Went to International Hotel together & found his new wife in parlor & had chat -- Morrill has sold out his old ranch for $225 per acre -- $26,000 in all -- Is taking a cruise, looking around, with a view to a home in his old days -- Left on evening train for Carson -- will go over to Lake Tahoe tomorrow for couple of days & back to San Jose -- Evening