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Boy Scouts called after... Thei?.?.ames were usually tgyen fer some fanciful associatiOn';with. the. namesake, rather ?an ..for ?esemblance te it. . ...... ? The Pol .e-Sta.?.?.eally the most hnporta?t oR,the S ,tars in our bY; it marl? t?i?orth at all times; it 0.1o. ne/s fixed in the heavensi '?11 the'other stars seem to swing around it o?ce in twenty-four hours. It is in the end of the Little Bear's t?il. But the Pole-star, or Polaris, is not a very bright one, and it would be hard to .identify but for the help of the Dipper, or Pointers. ' '.'

. The ou?{.d.e ,(,Alph? and Beta) of the Dipper points nearly 

to Polaris,'a? a/li?t?nce equal to three and 'one half times the i?ace' that' t?.ara?s these' two stars of the Dipper's outer side. ' .... ". ? ' " Various Indian?"?tl the Pole-star the "Home Star," and '?The Star that Never Moyes." and the Dipper they call the "Broken Back." :: '""' ...... ' 'The last ?.?'?'? one in the Dipper, away from the p01e -- that is, the star ?'?e bend of the handle, --is known to astron- omers as Mi/iif,' 6n.e:0f the Horses. Just above it, and tucked Close in, 'is a tih?ller star known to astronomers as Alcor, or

e Rider. The.' hidians call these two the "Old Squaw and 

the Pappoose0fi"Her Back." In the old world, from very ancient times, these have been used as tests of eyesight. To be able to see Alcor ?ith' the naked eye means thai one has excellent ?eesight. S0 ? trio on the plains, the old folks would ask cMldr.?'?/? /!l,l?.t, "Can you see the pappoose 'on the old squaw s back?. ' And when the youngster saw it, and Proved' that 'he did by a right description, they rejoiced that he had the 'eye/ight wMch is the first requisite' of a good hunter. -'

The Great Bear is also'to be' remembered as the Pointers 

for another reaibn. It is the hour-hand of the woodman's dock. It goes ?nce arouhd the North Star in about twenty: four hours, th? same way as the sun, and for the same reason ? th?t'ii:'is the earth that is going and leaving them behind. ""; '

The time ill going. around is not exactly twenty-four hours, 

so that the positibn of the Pointers varies with the seasons, but, aS a rule, this f9r ?oodcraft purposes is near enough. The bowl of the Dipper swings'one and one half times the width of the . opening (i.z., fi?een degrees) in one hour. If it went a quarter of the circle, thag'would mean you had slept a anarter of a day, or'six hours. ' '" ?,?t,? ?oo?[ ? ..? ?:.