Uncle Henry had said, "Two," and promised to show the children a very big one, and an old man having a struggle with it besides. Peter and Paul were expectantly waiting on the sand when Uncle Henry and Betty came down from the porch that evening after dark. "Now," said Peter, "where's the snake, Uncle Hen?" "We'll begin with his head," said Uncle Henry. "Everybody find the northern crown, or _Virgo's_ necklace, and _Hercules'_ club. Now look just between them and you will see five stars in a sort of little cross, quite close together. Get that?" (15) The children soon found all five and put down little stones to represent them on the sand. "All right, then; now trace a line from star to star, down toward _Scorpio_, and then across toward the archer, and then up in the direction of the swan. That line is the _Serpent_. It is writhing in the hands of _Ophiuchus_, the old man who is called 'The Serpent-bearer.' His head and _Hercules'_ head are only a little way apart. Look for a bright star just east of the bright one in the head of _Hercules_ and you will have the head of _Ophiuchus_. Then look where his shoulders would naturally come and you will see two stars close together in each shoulder. Find them?" The children did, and placed pebbles for the head and shoulders of _Ophiuchus_. "Now," said Uncle Henry, "draw two long lines down from the shoulders, through the Serpent and beyond, and you will have the old man's body, legs and feet. One foot is just in front of the archer's bow; the other is just above the red heart of _Scorpio_. You will have to imagine his arms, and his hands holding the serpent while it squirms." When all the pebbles were down and all the lines were drawn, _Ophiuchus_ and the serpent, or _Serpens_ in Latin, looked like this: [Illustration] "Are there any more snakes, Uncle Hen?" inquired Paul expectantly. "Yes, a sea-serpent made of very faint stars," said Uncle Henry, "but he is rather hard to trace out and the only other creature I have left now that is anything like a snake is a dolphin, or porpoise, and he isn't much like one. We'll find him, anyway, and then if you prefer to make a sea-horse out of the dolphin, or _Delphinus_, as you would say in Latin, why go ahead and do it. The animals in Starland are very obliging. They will turn into anything you like to see in them." "Where is the dolphin, Uncle Henry?" asked Betty. "Well," said he, "draw a line through the beak of the swan and the arrow, or _Sagitta_, and it will strike _Delphinus_. (16) The arrow is about halfway between the swan and the dolphin. See it?" The children soon found the dolphin and mapped his skeleton with pebbles. Then Uncle Henry put it to a vote of the Society of Star-Gazers whether _Delphinus_ should be finished up as a dolphin or a sea-horse. The vote was two to one for the sea-horse.