in order to remember their situation, if I were to draw them upon a bit
of paper.

_Mr Barlow._--But how would you do that?

_Tommy._--I would make a mark upon the paper for every star in Charles'
Wain; and I would place the marks just as I see the stars placed in the
sky; and I would entreat you to write the names for me; and this I
would do till I was acquainted with all the stars in the heavens.

_Mr Barlow._--That would be an excellent way, but you see a paper is
flat; is that the form of the sky?

_Tommy._--No; the sky seems to rise from the earth on every side, like
the dome of a great church.

_Mr Barlow._--Then if you were to have some round body, I should think
it would correspond to the different parts of the sky, and you might
place your stars with more exactness.

_Tommy._--That is true, indeed, sir; I wish I had just such a globe.

_Mr Barlow._--Well, just such a globe I will endeavour to procure you.

_Tommy._--Sir, I am much obliged to you, indeed. But of what use is it
to know the stars?

_Mr Barlow._--Were there no other use, I should think there would be a
very great pleasure in observing such a number of glorious glittering
bodies as are now above us. We sometimes run to see a procession of
coaches, or a few people in fine clothes strutting about. We admire a
large room that is painted, and ornamented, and gilded; but what is
there in all these things to be compared with the sight of these
luminous bodies that adorn every part of the sky?

_Tommy._--That's true, indeed. My Lord Wimple's great room that I have
heard all the people admire so much, is no more to be compared to it
than the shabbiest thing in the world.

_Mr Barlow._--That is indeed true; but there are some, and those very
important, uses to be derived from an acquaintance with the stars.
Harry, do you tell Master Merton the story of your being lost upon the
great moor.

_Harry._--You must know, Master Tommy, that I have an uncle who lives
about three miles off, across the great moor that we have sometimes
walked upon. Now, my father, as I am in general pretty well acquainted
with the roads, very often sends me with messages to my uncle. One
evening I went there so late, that it was scarcely possible to get home
again before it was quite dark. It was at that time in the month of
October. My uncle wished me very much to stay at his house all night,
but that was not proper for me to do, because my father had ordered me
to come