Fig. 615.—King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.
CHAPTER XXXIV
HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE STARS
WHEN you used to recite about the cow jumping over the moon, you did not know that there were all sorts of animals and people up among the stars near the moon, and, while they may never have followed the example of the cow in the nursery rhyme, probably they often feel as though they would enjoy doing so. But these starry people and their pets are very well behaved, and so far they have been perfectly content to remain exactly where they were placed hundreds of years ago.
Fig. 616.—Ursa Major, the Great Bear.
There is one animal in particular with which you must make friends—a bear, an immense creature called