VIII. ANDROMEDA’S BIRTHDAY 133 _Meteors are ripe! A touch makes them fly. I suspect there’ll be doings to-night in the Sky._ IX. A SURPRISE PARTY 149 _It was all Little Bear: (though they all said they all knew it!) But for him they’d have paid no attention at all to it._ X. TRAVELERS’ TALES 171 _Tip-top o’ the hill!—There’s the fit starting-place For a highflier journey through direful Space!_ XI. TORQUILLON’S LAIR 192 _His spirit was selfish, his ways impolite. Hey! Ships and Star People! Ye made a brave fight!_ EPILOGUE 230 ILLUSTRATIONS Star People and the Jane Ellen _Frontispiece_ They watched with her 4 Tom Green’s Chanty 26 Everybody watched him go up and up 30 “Oh, dear Taffy, let _me_ take care of the Sailor’s Star” 38 Draco 46 A more rascally comet you wouldn’t care to see 50 Orion 56 Orion’s Dogs and Little Bear 64 “Shall we not walk together, sir?” 70 Cassiopeia 76 “Why, I thought you were a wagon,” he said, “but where are your hortheth?” 86 Andromeda 98 They thought only of their flight 116 His wondering eyes looked from Lady Moon’s shoulder 124 The small round shadow passed on across the bright lantern of the moon 130 Three Orions couldn’t have stopped them 146 Little Bear stopped by the bush 154 He found Merope sitting alone 180 The sisters were dancing—the very prettiest and most twirly of the “Sailor’s Knots” 190 Down the channel he came flying 210 Standing lightly on the yards, high, high in the air, the twin brothers Castor and Pollux 216 STAR PEOPLE I THE PRINCESS AND THE OTHERS