ortunately is not marked by any star. Roughly Orion's sword, the
three small stars, points North and South.

East and West. Orion sets due west, and rises due east, so that, if you
can catch him rising or setting, you know where the points of the
compass are. Constellations, such as Orion, or the Bull, rise in the
east, four minutes earlier each succeeding night--that is about half an
hour earlier every Saturday.

Read _The Song of the Fifty Stars_ by Arthur A. Carey, and try to find
each star on a chart and then in the Heavens.

The Song of the Fifty Stars

Alpherat, Caph, and Algenib--three leading stars--
Move in front of all the host,
Turning from East to West,
Over the rounded dome;
And, near the head of the line, the Star of the North,
Polaris, turns his round and marks the hub of the wheel.

From Alpherat, North and East, Andromeda shoots,
Like a branch, with Mirach and Almach; while, far in the South,
Achernar shines, a beacon-light, at the "End of the River."

From Almach pass to Algol, of the changing face,
Called by the Arabs the Demon--
The Medusa of the Greeks.

But, not so fast! lest we forget the little changing star
Whose place is West of Algol, farther South--
Mira, "the Wonderful," in Cetus or the Whale.

Algol leads to Mirfach, the brightest star of Perseus,
Who saved the captive Andromeda, daughter of Cepheus, "the Monarch,"
And royal Cassiopeia.

Then comes, surrounded by her sisters, gentle Alcyone,
The peaceful, daughter of the King who rules the tempestuous winds;
And, running in pursuit of these--the happy Pleiades--
Aldebaran, "the Follower," shines from the eye of the Bull.

Next comes Capella--the Mother Goat--watching her three Kids;
Her yellow light the color of our Sun.

Capella and Rigel move in line, and afterwards comes Nath,
Who marks the horn of the butting Bull.

Orion, the Hunter, on the Equator--the Giant of the Arabs--
Shines glorious North and South;
Bellatrix his left shoulder; Mintaka marks his belt.

After Mintaka comes Betelgeux, right shoulder of Orion;
While, between them in order, though farther North,
Is Zeta of Taurus, the Bull, who marks the other horn.

The next is Menkalinan, the shoulder of the Charioteer;
And, two degrees to the Eastward, the Circle of the Solstice passes by.
While, far down in the South,