"Well, Betty," said Uncle Henry, sitting down beside her, "there are several ladies in our star country, but only two of them are in our sight in the summer time. Let's get the boys and we'll find both the ladies and take a vote to decide which of them shall have your lyre-ukelele to play on." Betty called, in her high little voice, for Peter and Paul to hurry, and they raced down from the porch with "Rags" in tow. "Uncle Hen," asked Peter, "'Rags' wants to know if there aren't any more dogs in the sky?" "Sure," said Uncle Henry, "sky folks are very fond of dogs. We've found the two that belong to the herdsman. Besides them, there are two others, but we can't see them 'til next winter. And, of course, there's _Cerberus_, the ugly, monstrous three-headed dog that Hercules killed. We'll find him to-night." "Oh, that's great!" said Peter, and he and Paul settled down with "Rags" between them. "Rags" looked expectantly at Uncle Henry, who said, "But first I've promised Betty to find the sky ladies that we can see now, and let one of them have the ukelele." "Rags'" ears dropped and he lost interest. Peter and Paul, however, remembering Betty's temper of the previous evening, said, "Of course, ladies first." "All right," said Uncle Henry, "everybody find _Arcturus_ in the hem of _Boötes'_ kilt. Get that? Well, then, draw a line in the sand, Betty, from _Boötes'_ right shoulder through _Arcturus_, and extend the line about as far again. (10) Then look in the sky at that point for a bright star." "I see it!" cried Betty. The boys picked it out next moment. "Well," said Uncle Henry, "it doesn't look much like an ear of corn, does it? That's what it is, though; an ear of corn held in the Virgin's left hand. Its name, _Spica_, means just that. The Virgin is scattering grains from the ear of corn with her right hand, to attract the birds of Starland--the swan, the eagle, and the dove. We'll find the eagle a little later on, but the dove is so far south that we never see it well. The boys and girls in South America see Noah's dove, but we can't." "Now," continued Uncle Henry, "follow along northward from _Spica_ to a point just below the big lion's tail. There is the Virgin's head. Between it and _Spica_ are two fairly bright stars. The one nearest _Spica_ is the Virgin's shoulder. Her left arm hangs at her side, from the shoulder to _Spica_, while her right arm extends in the direction of the great bear's tail. Put down the pebbles as fast as you find the stars, Betty." [Illustration] When Betty and Uncle Henry had finished the Virgin, or _Virgo_, as she is called in Latin, she looked like this: Then Uncle Henry added the little half circle of small pebbles, with one larger one near the centre, shown in the picture just at the left of Boötes. (11) "What is that, Uncle Henry?" asked all the children at once. "Do you see it in the sky?" he asked, The children quickly found it. "What does it look like, then?"