"Can't you extend your map, Frank, so as to put in the river to the
village, showing the milldam and the island?" suggested Uncle Robert.

"You might draw it this way, too," said Donald, "and show how the river
bends the other way down here."

"Now I want to draw my garden," said Susie, when Frank had finished.

Just then the clock on the kitchen shelf struck loudly.

"It's bedtime now, dear," said Mrs. Leonard. "Can't you draw your garden
to-morrow?"

"We'll plant those pansies to-morrow," said Uncle Robert, "and see what
can be put in all the other beds. Then we'll draw it, and tell just where
everything is."

So Susie went to bed happy, and Frank and Donald soon followed. And all
were glad that Uncle Robert was really come.




CHAPTER III.

THE NEW THERMOMETER.


The next morning as they left the breakfast table Donald said: