The book of stars; being a simple explanation of the stars and their uses to boy life, written to conform to the tests of the Boy scouts . FULLY ILLUSTRATED D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK LONDON 1915 Q« Cormnrt, 1015, nrD. AND < OMPANT • 1 in tli -8 1915 TO THE BURNHAMS WITH PLEASANT MEMORIES OFMOUNT HAMILTON NIGHTS A WORD TO YOU The stars are the friends of everyone who knows them. If yon have never stood ont in the open and watched the starson a clear night, you have missed the most wonderful sight tobe seen from this little old mud ball of ours, and my advice toyou is not to
The book of stars; being a simple explanation of the stars and their uses to boy life, written to conform to the tests of the Boy scouts . FULLY ILLUSTRATED D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK LONDON 1915 Q« Cormnrt, 1015, nrD. AND < OMPANT • 1 in tli -8 1915 TO THE BURNHAMS WITH PLEASANT MEMORIES OFMOUNT HAMILTON NIGHTS A WORD TO YOU The stars are the friends of everyone who knows them. If yon have never stood ont in the open and watched the starson a clear night, you have missed the most wonderful sight tobe seen from this little old mud ball of ours, and my advice toyou is not to let another night go by without making friendswith the stars. By the stars I mean everything in the far-off sky that we cansee, and this includes the white-hot points of light we call thefixed stars, the blazing sun, the bright planets, the pale, coldmoon, the fiery comets and the burning meteors. All of these things in the sky are so easily ours to look at, toenjoy and to use, that we are apt not to take them at their truevalue, just as many of us do not appreciate to the fullest thegreen grass, the trees, the birds and all the
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