He never tries to go around the Pole.
Deceit and rudeness worry Mr. Sol
Past his control!
“That is the poetry,” said the Princess, “and this is very truly true: Old Sol makes a visit and spends a little while every year in each of the Houses of the Zodiac. But when he comes to the farthest North—which is the Crab—in the Summer, he turns back and goes South until he comes to the Goat’s House, which is the farthest South, in the Winter; then he turns and comes back, and so forever and always.”
“Won’t they let him go?” asked the Kitten.
“He doesn’t give them a chance to prevent. Now he knows it’s a Rule of the Sky he obeys it even before he comes to the place they say he mustn’t pass.”
“But they might have told him politely,” said Phyllisy. “It means something behind, doesn’t it, Dearie?—just plainly true without anything around it?”
The Princess laughed suddenly, because Miss Phyllisy was so earnest and so funny; but she nodded, “Yes.”
“And the ‘House’ just means that part of the sky where they are?”
The Princess nodded again.