"You're wrong," said Uncle Henry, "but I don't blame you. _Arcturus_ is much too bright and beautiful to be only a big, bright button on the lower edge of _Boötes'_ shepherd's kilt--but that is all it is. The star at the top end of the kite is his head, and the two stars at the ends of the cross-stick of the kite are his shoulders. About halfway from them to _Arcturus_ you can find the belt of his kilt, and----" "Oh, I see his legs!" interrupted Paul. "He's running after the big bear." "Put them in, Paul," said Uncle Henry. Paul did, and the figure of _Boötes_ grew to look like this. [Illustration] "But he hasn't any arms!" said Peter. "Yes, he has," explained Uncle Henry, "his left one is up in the air, and his right one holds a shepherd's crook upon his right shoulder. Like this." Uncle Henry added pebbles and lines until _Boötes_ was finished. [Illustration] "What awful short legs he has!" criticised Betty. "That must be why he's never caught the great bear," smiled Uncle Henry. "What's he shaking his fist for?" inquired Paul, pointing to the herdsman's left hand. "Is he so mad because he can't catch _Ursa Major_?" Uncle Henry did not reply, but drew two long lines from the uplifted hand downward to a point just below the end of the big bear's tail. "Oh, I know!" piped Betty, and throwing herself on her back, she began to star-gaze industriously. Peter and Paul looked at each other inquiringly. "The dogs!" said Peter. "Betty's looking for them. They're on leash of course. Those lines are the leashes." Uncle Henry smiled his pleasure. "The hunting dogs--or, as you would say it in Latin, _Canes Venatici_, are largely imaginary. There are six stars--three in each dog, and all faint except one, named _Cor Caroli_." "I see the bright one!" said Peter, and put down a fair-sized pebble to represent it. When the children had found the five other faint stars and Uncle Henry had finished drawing the dogs, _Boötes_ and his hunting hounds, _Asterion_ and _Chara_, looked like this. [Illustration] "Why do they call the bright star at the tail of _Chara_, _Cor Caroli_, Uncle Henry?" asked Paul. "It is Latin for 'heart of Charles,'" said Uncle Henry, "and the Charles they mean is Charles the Second of England, but don't ask me why, for I don't know. Perhaps the dog _Chara_ ran away with _Cor Caroli_. I understand that Charles the Second lost his heart pretty often, and perhaps one time he didn't get it back. Beware, Paul! I am Father William out of Alice in Wonderland; 'you have asked me three questions and that is enough.'" "Are you going to make a poem for us to-night, too?" inquired Betty hopefully. "Let me see," said Uncle Henry thoughtfully. "Great bear, _Boötes_, pronounced Bō-ō-tees, and two dogs--they ought to make some kind of a poem. How's this? I'll let you name it after you've heard it." "The big bear runs, the herdsman runs, His dogs, they both are chasing.