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Title: The book of woodcraft
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946
Subjects: Camping Outdoor life Natural history Indians of North America
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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AS A TEST OF EYESIGHT This star group has always been considered a good testof eyesight. I once asked a group of boys in camp how many of thePleiades they could count with the naked eye. A noisy,forward boy, who was nicknamed Bluejay, because hewas so fond of chattering and showing off, said, Oh, I seehundreds. Well, you can sit down, I said, for you can do nothingof the kind. Another steadier boy said, I believe I see six, and heproved that he did see them, for he mapped them outproperly on a board with six pebbles. That boy had good eyes, because poor eyes see merely ahaze, but another boy present had better eyes, for he saw. General Scouting Outdoors 209 and proved that he saw, seven. This is considered first-class. The Indians as a rule see seven, because they callthem the Seven Stars. But, according to Flammarion, it ispossible to exceed this, for several persons have givenproof that they distinguished ten Pleiades. This is almostthe extreme of human eyesight. There is, however,
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The Pleiades as seen with the best of nalied eyes according to the same authority, a record of thirteenPleiades having been actually seen by the unaided humaneye. The telescope reveals some 2,000 in the cluster. The Indians call them the Seven Dancers, and tell alegend that seems to explain their dancing about the small-est one, as well as the origin of the constellation. Once there were seven little Indian boys, who used totake their bowl of succotash each night and eat theirsuppers together on a mound outside the village. Sixwere about the same size, one was smaller than the rest,but he had a sweet voice, and knew many songs, so aftersupper the others would dance around the mound to hissinging, and he marked time on his drum. When the frosty days of autumn were ending, and winter 2IO The Book of Woodcraft threatened to stop the nightly party, they said, Let usask our parents for some venison, so we can have a grandfeast and dance for the last time on the mound. They asked, but all w

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