“Cepheus awoke one night, the first of the Star People. As he turned his head quickly, something bobbed against his forehead; and he could see—out of the tail of his eye—something dangling that moved when he did. He took off his crown and looked at it. There was a rather wilted green meteor tucked into it. He knew he didn’t put it there himself, but he didn’t take it out, and while he was thinking about it, Draco woke. “He gave his wings a flap to see that the joints worked right, and something fell out of the fold of one of them. What should it be but a little green meteor with a very short stem! “‘That’th funny,’ he said. Then he stuck it on one of the sharp prongs of his wing, and came over to Cepheus. “‘Thee what I’ve got,’ he said. “‘So have I,’ said Cepheus. ‘Where did they come from?’ “‘Maybe it’th a joke. Do you thuppoth any one elth hath them?—I’m going to look.’ “‘Cathiopeia hath!’ he called, in a whisper. ‘Right on the arm of her chair bethide her.’ “Cepheus was perfectly willing to have some one else do the running about; so he waited, and in a few minutes Draco came back to him. “‘Every thingle perthon around here hath one,’ he said. ‘Herculeth’ ith thtuck into the crook of hith thumb where he’th holding hith club; and Pertheuth’ hath two thnakes twithted around it on hith Gorgon’th head.’ “But the time was gone by to discuss it quietly, for Cassiopeia was awake. By chance, her meteor was the first thing her eye rested upon. “‘What is that?’ she said to herself, and picked it up. ‘I’d like to know where that came from. _See here!_’ she called to Cepheus, and her voice began to sound excited. ‘Look at that!’ “He came toward her, and Draco followed him. ‘What is it?’ he asked, pretending not to know.” “To be funny?” asked Pat. “Yes. Cepheus was a bit of a wag in his way. ‘Can’t you see?’ Cassiopeia asked impatiently. ‘A little wilted green meteor!’ “‘What of it? It won’t hurt you.’ “‘Of course it won’t! But how did it come here?’ “‘You must have put it there yourself, to decorate.’ “‘Now you know better. Wouldn’t I know it if—Why! _You’ve got one yourself!_’ she almost shrieked. “‘Have I?’ asked Cepheus, innocently. “‘There—in your crown!’ and she pointed to it. And Draco could not keep still another second. “‘We’ve all got them!’ he cried. Then Cassiopeia knew they had been pretending—to make sport of her; and that was the time everybody else had to wake up!” “It was Little Bear put them,” said the Kitten. “That was the very person. And Andromeda guessed it at once. But even she couldn’t guess _why_. So she chose to wait a little before she spoke. Perseus must have forgotten, or it took him longer to wake up; but suddenly it occurred to him too. Andromeda pulled his elbow just as the word was at his lips. ‘Don’t say anything,’ she whispered. ‘Look at Little Bear!’