The next day at 9am Sam was standing on Frodo's doorstep knocking on the door. Frodo greeted him with a warm smile and invited him in. The two got to work immediately and started to clean the house. First Sam opened every window in the house and Frodo started to sweep the hall. A half hour later the first half of the house looked lovely and clean as if Frodo had never left. They then went outside and sat on the grassy hill looking out across a field. They drank some tea and talked for a short while. Shortly afterwards the two carried on cleaning the house and by 2 o'clock the house was sparkling clean once more. Sam had even gone outside and attempted to weed some of the flowers.
"Let's go to the green dragon this evening." Sam said suddenly. "We could meet Merry and Pippin there." Frodo nodded in agreement.
"Shall we go for an afternoon walk Sam? The leaves are just beginning to turn brown and I should like to go and see them." Frodo asked.
"Of course Mr Frodo, but the days are getting shorter and colder so I suggest we take some cloaks." Frodo walked over to his wall rack and picked up two walking sticks and handed one to Sam, then he picked out a red weatherworn cloak and wrapped it around him. Sam picked up his own cloak, a pale green cloak that rosy had finished sewing that very same day.
The two companions walked out of the house and shut the green door behind them. As they got to the gat a small girl no more than ten skipped merrily past. She stopped when she saw Frodo and stared at him for a moment.
"Mr Frodo?" The girl squeaked. "When did you return?" She asked timidly.
"A few days ago." Frodo replied.
"Oh, well I'm pleased to see you. Do you have any new stories?" She asked hopefully
"Of course Miranda, come by soon and I shall tell you them."
"Yay, wait till I tell the other children this!" She squealed excitedly. With that the little girl hurried down the road.
"Oh dear." Sam smiled. The two walked up the hill towards the forest.
While walking through the forest the two often stopped to show each other a certain tree or plant. Frodo showed Sam the tree that he had sat when he had heard Gandalf at Bilbo's 111th party. Sam laughed and showed Frodo a strange plant that he and Strider had searched for to cure Frodo when he was stabbed. The scenery was beautiful. All around them leaves of brown, orange, red and gold floated from the trees and landed softly without a sound on the ground. A deer strode out in front of them. The two hobbits stopped in their tracks and stared at the stunning creature. It stared back with big shiny black eyes. A single sun beam shone through the leaves and landed on the deer. He looked cautiously at the two strangers, nodded then galloped of in high speed. The two were stunned by this and said nothing for a few moments. Frodo pulled out an old battered book with a royal blue cover. He flicked through the pages and came to a blank page and pulled out a small pencil and sketched what he had just seen. Sam looked over his shoulder and was surprised by Frodo's talent. After a minute Sam shuddered and they realised the sun was setting. They got up and walked through the forest back to the Green Dragon.