“Little Bear stopped by the bush—looked at it—looked around him; then he trotted on—hunting for something.
“They watched him find another bush—and another; and each time look back and forth. It was very mysterious.
LITTLE BEAR STOPPED BY THE BUSH
“‘He is fixing the places in his mind, so that he can come back to them again!’ exclaimed Andromeda.
“‘That’s it,’ agreed Perseus. ‘I wonder what for.’
“‘We’ll find out.—Be careful! He’s coming home.’
“They kept close until Little Bear had trotted by them and was out of sight. Then they went themselves to examine the bushes. But that didn’t help them to understand. They were the ordinary kind of wild meteors that never grow very large; and they were still quite green.
“So they gave up puzzling about it, and went back to be civil to Orion. But when he wanted to know why they were in such a hurry, they were so mysterious he thought they had a secret; and he never guessed that the secret was Little Bear’s, and one reason why they wouldn’t tell was because they didn’t know it themselves!
“They began to think they never were going to know, for Little Bear didn’t go off again and gave them no chance to find out.”