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io8 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA In old charts of the stars, Orion is shown with his hound, hunt- ing the bull, Taurus. PLEIADES (Ply'-a-des). Can be seen in winter as a cluster of small stars between Aldebaran and Algol, or, a line drawn from the back-bottom, through the front-rim of the Dipper, about two Dipper-lengths, touches this little group. They are not far from Aldebaran, being on the shoulder of the Bull, of which Aldebaran is the right eye. They may be considered the seven arrow wounds made by Orion. They are nearer the Pole-star than Aldebaran is, and on the side away from the Dipper; also, they are nearly on a line between Beta of the Dipper (front bot- tom) and Capella. Serviss tells us that the Pleiades have a supposed connection with the Great Pyramid, because " about 2170 B. C, when the be- ginning of spring coincided with the culmination of the Pleiades at midnight, that wonderful group of stars was visible just at midnight, through the mysterious southward-pointing passage of the Pyramid." To North 5tir The Pleiades as seen with the best of naked eyes PLEIADES AS A TEST OF EYESIGHT This star-group has always been considered a good test of eyesight. I once asked a group of boys in camp how many of the Pleiades they could count with the naked eye. A noisy, forward boy, who