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Title: The book of woodcraft and Indian lore
Identifier: bookofwoodcrafti00seto (find matches)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946
Subjects: Outdoor life; Indians of North America -- Social life and customs; Fungi; Trees -- United States
Publisher: Garden City, N. Y. Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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General Scouting Outdoors 209 and proved that he saw, seven. This is considered first- class. The Indians as a rule see seven, because they call them the Seven Stars. But, according to Flammarion, it is possible to exceed this, for several persons have given proof that they distinguished ten Pleiades. This is almost the extreme of human eyesight. There is, however,
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The Pleiades as seen with the best of naked eyes according to the same authority, a record of thirteen Pleiades having been actually seen by the unaided human eye. The telescope reveals some 2,000 in the cluster. The Indians call them the "Seven Dancers," and tell a legend 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 to take their bowl of succotash each night and eat their suppers together on a mound outside the village. Six were about the same size, one was smaller than the rest, but he had a sweet voice, and knew many songs, so after supper the others would dance around the mound to his singing, and he marked time on his drum. When the frosty days of autumn were ending, and winter

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