To understand that we must go on to our third quarter of the circle. You know Sirius and the three starred belt of Orion. The Belt is exactly over the equator. The three stars lead you down south to Sirius, and a line at right angles brings you to Procyon of the Little Dog, which thus forms a triangle with Sirius and the Belt. Get the Pole, Canopus, and Sirius in a line, and a little further to the north, on the one side you have the Belt, and on the other Procyon. Though I see no stars of any consequence between the Great and Little Dogs, is there any constellation there? Monoceros, the Unicorn, keeps them apart. The Hare and Noah’s Dove are on the other side of Canis Major. They are both south of Orion. In the Dove, a little out of the line half-way from Canopus to Sirius, is the pretty Phact. The five stars in a line between Canopus and Sirius are in Canis Major, the Great Dog Constellation. What a gay show of stars between the Pole and Orion! But what a blank beyond to the right. I see one, however, opposite to Sirius, forming a parallelogram with it, the Belt, and Phact. That is Zaurack, in the River Po; and the great space beyond that, to the right, far north of Achernar, is Cetus the Whale. The star Menkar or Menhab, a little north of Zaurack, is in the Whale’s head, while Diphda is in its tail. Achernar is about half-way from Diphda to the Pole. Between the two are the Chemical Furnace, the Sculptor, and the Phoenix. I don’t care about these. Have you not nearly got round, father? The last quarter of our circle lies between the Southern Crown and the Whale’s tail. That will be north of the Peacock and Indian. What is the bright star between the Whale’s tail and Achernar? The head of the Phoenix. And forming a triangle with it and the tail is the noble Fomalhaut of the Southern Fish, under the sign Pisces and near the toe of Aquarius. The Goat Capricornus is to the right of Fomalhaut. Why, there is nothing hardly between Fomalhaut and the Crown. Between the Peacock and the Crown are the two stars close together, forming the foot of Sagittarius, whose body stretches from the Crown to Capricornus; while the Crane and the Microscope lie between the Peacock and Fomalhaut. It would require a good telescope to see that faint-looking Microscope. You will see seven stars in a line, left of the Peacock, dipping down toward the Pole--these form the Crane. And a long-necked fellow it is, too.” * * * * * Another rest was necessary here, to enable James to connect in his mind the last collection of constellations with his circumpolar ones. His father then took him to those about the equator and north of it, and thus introduced him to the twelve signs of the Zodiac. “You have learned, my dear boy, the names of these signs; I want now to teach you their positions. Yes; I would like to know how big the Bull is. Do his horns poke the polar star, while he hangs his tail over the equator?