Show North Star and the Dipper The star pole-star is really the most important important important im im- of the stars in our sky says Country Life in America It marks the north at all times it alone is fixed in the heavens all the other stars seem to swing around it once in twenty four h hours urs But the star pole-star or Polaris is not a very bright one and it would be hard to identify If it were not for the help of the called so-called pointers in the big dipper or great bear The outer rim of the dipper points nearly to Polaris at a distance equal to three times the space that separates separates sepa sepa- rates ates the two stars of the dippers dipper's outer side Various Indians call the star pole-star the home star and the star that never moves and the dipper dipper dipper dip dip- per they call the broken back The great bear is also to be remembered as the pointers for another reason Teason It is the hour hand of the woodman's woodmans woodmans woodmans woodman's wood wood- mans man's clock It goes once around the north star in about twenty-four twenty hours the reverse way of the hands of a watch that is it goes the same way as the sun and for the same reason reason- that it is is is' the earth that is going and leaving them behind |