General Scouting Outdoors 211 



dance, the six around the Httle one in the middle. Of 

 course, you can't hear his song, or even his drum, but you 

 must remember he is a long way off now. 



There is another story of a little Indian girl called 

 Two-Bright-Eyes. She was the only child of her parents. 

 She wandered away one evening seeking the whippoorwill 

 and got lost — you see, even Indians get lost sometimes. 

 She never returned. The mourning parents never learned 

 what became of her, but they thought they saw a new pair 

 of twin stars rising through the trees not long after, and 

 when their grief was so softened by time that they could 

 sing about it, this is the song they made about their loss: 



THE TWIN STARS 



Two-Bright-Eyes went wandering out 



To chase the whippoorwill. 

 Two-Bright-Eyes got lost, and left 



Our teepee, oh, so still! 



Two-Bright-Eyes was lifted up 



To sparkle in the skies. 

 And look like stars, but we know well 



That that's our lost Bright-Eyes. 



She is looking for the camp, 



She would come back if she could; 



She is peeping thro' the trees to find 

 The teepee in the wood. 



The Planets 



The stars we see are suns like our Sun, giving out light 

 to worlds that go around them as our world goes around our 

 Sun; as these worlds do not give out light, and are a long 



