The black speck was the head of Orion. He was swimming back to Artemis from the country of the bad king.
The speck at once went under the water and was seen no more.
When Artemis found what she had done, she was very sad indeed. She could not bring Orion back to earth, but she took him up into the sky and put him among the stars, and there he is standing to this day.
If you will look up into the sky on any clear winter night, you can see him. Just before him is his dog. We call it the Dog Star.
THE WIND AND THE CLOUDS
The Sun and the Moon had a brother, the Summer Wind. His name was Hermes, but sometimes he was called Mercury.
He had shoes with wings on them, which always took him very quickly wherever he wished to go, and he had a magic cap which kept him from being seen.
He ran on errands for his father and his older brothers. He went everywhere, and he often picked up things that lay in his way, and that didn't belong to him.