"It is muddy, but it's beginning to dry off in some places already."
"How big is the garden?" asked Susie.
"It is forty feet one way," said Frank, "and twenty-five feet the other."
"Take your paper and pencil, Frank," said Uncle Robert, "and draw a plan of it. You might make one inch for every ten feet, and see how that will come out."
Frank took the paper, pencil, and ruler, and soon he said:
"It makes it four inches long and two inches and a half wide."
"But remember," said Uncle Robert, "that means forty feet long and twenty-five feet wide."
"I'll write it down," said Frank; "then we'll remember."
So he wrote "40" on the long side and "25" on the short one.
"But we must find out how many square feet there are on the whole surface," said Uncle Robert.