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Things to Know and Do 399 Other ConsteUations Orion Orion (0-ri-on), with its striking array of brillLint stars, Betelgeuze, Rigel, the Three Kings, etc., is generally admitted to be the finest conitellation in the heavens. Orion was the hunter gLnt who went to Heaven when he died, and now marches arcund the great dome, but is seen only in the winter, because, during .he summer, he passes over during daytime. Thus he is still the hunter's constellation. The three stars of his belt are called the "Three Kings." Sirius, the Great Dog-star, is in the head of Orion's Hound, the constellation Canis Major, and following farther back is the Little Dog-star, Frocyon, the chief star of the constellation Cams Minor In old charts of the stars, Orion is shown with his hounds, hunting the bull, Taurus. This constellation is recognizable by this diagram; the red star, Aldebaran, being the angry right eye of the Bull. His face is covered with a cluster of little stars called the Hyades, and on his shoulder are the seven stars, called Pleiades. Pldades Pleiades (Ply-a-des) can be seen i.. 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 Big Dipper, about two Dipper lengths, touches this little group. They are not far from Aldebaran, being in the right shoulder of the Bull. They may be considered the seven arrow wounds made by Orion. Serviss tells us that the Pleiades have a supposed connection with the Great Pyramid, because "about 2170 b. c, when the begirming of spring coincided with the culmination of the Plei- ades at midnight, that wonderful group of stars was visible just at midnight, through the mysterious southward-pointing passage of the Pyramid. Cassiopeia On the opposite side of the Pole-star from the Big Dipper, and nearly as far from it, is a W of five bright stars. This is called Cassiopeia's Chair. It is easily foui^ and visible the year round on clear nights. Thus we have dOcribed ten consteIlati<His from which the Woodcraf ter may select tlu numba needed to.qoalif y, nam^)