"Then," said Frank, "when it gets cooler here in the fall it is growing warmer there, and that would make their spring come in September, wouldn't it? Do you see, Susie?"
[Illustration: Eskimo scene.]
"Yes," answered Susie, "but it seems all mixed up. I thought it was the same as it is here all over the world."
"Oh, I didn't," said Donald. "I've read about countries where it is summer all the time, and is so hot that the people don't do anything but lie under the trees and sleep. And there are other countries where it is winter all the time, and the people dress in furs and make their houses of snow and ice. I read all about it in a book once, but it didn't tell why it was so. I knew, of course, the sun had something to do with it."
"Why, you know, Don," said Frank, "we learned all that in our geography at school."
"Yes," said Donald, "but I never thought about that in the geography as meaning any real country."
"What did you think it meant?" asked Uncle Robert.
"Oh," said Donald, "just a lesson in the book."
"Well," said Frank, "I always thought it was some country, but I never knew where. I didn't think much about it after I said the lesson."
"I should think not," said Uncle Robert, not sorry that the teacher had gone away and the school had been closed.