The board being planed smooth, the edge of the shadow could be seen much more distinctly upon it, than upon the ground; so Jonas was satisfied that it would be a great deal better to draw the hour lines upon the board. After having determined upon the place where it was to go, he took it up again, and then drove down two strong but short stakes, sawed off square at the top, into the ground, one on each side; so that they should come under the two ends of the board. Then he laid the board down again upon the stakes, and nailed the ends of the board to them. The stakes had been driven in until they were just level with the surface of the ground, and so the board seemed to be lying along upon the ground too, though it was, in fact, fastened securely to the short stakes. Then the boys marked the hour lines upon the board with some black paint; and thus they had a very respectable dial. When the sun shone, Rollo could tell what o'clock it was near enough for all his purposes. [Illustration] THE BEE-HIVE. One of the drollest of all of Rollo's experiments was his plan for getting a bee-hive. One day, he was in the garden with a playmate of his, named Henry, who lived not very far from his father's house. In the back part of the garden were some tall hollyhocks growing. They were in full flower. Hollyhocks are very tall. They grow up in a straight stem, as high as a man's head, with leaves and flowers from top to bottom. The flowers are large, and shaped somewhat like a cup, or rather a wine-glass, and bees often go into them to get honey. Now it happened that as Rollo and Henry were sauntering about, near these hollyhocks, Rollo happened to see a bee in one of the flowers, loading himself up with wax or honey. The flower, that the bee was in, was just about as high as Rollo's head. "O, there's a bee!" said Rollo; "let's catch him." "Catch him!" said Henry. "If you do, you'll catch a sting, I rather think." "No," said Rollo, "I can catch him without getting stung." "How?" said Henry. "I will show you," said Rollo. So saying, Rollo approached the hollyhocks, and put both his hands up slowly to the flower which the bee was in. He then very carefully gathered together the edges of the flower, so as to enclose and imprison the bee. He then gently broke off the stem of the flower, and held it up to Henry's ear, to let him hear the bee buzz within. "Now," said Rollo, "I wish I had a little bee-hive. I would put him in, and perhaps he would make some honey in there." "Do you think he would?" said Henry. "Yes," replied Rollo, "I have no doubt he would; bees always make honey in bee-hives." "Haven't you got some box that will do?" said Henry. "I don't know," said Rollo; "let us go along towards the barn, and see if we can't find one. I suppose it is no matter what the shape of it is," he added, "if it is only a box, with a small hole for the bees to go in and out."