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of Europe the "Hen and Her Chickens," and were among the poetic 

 inhabitants of Greece the seven daughters of Atlas, become a herd of 

 caribou among the native huntsmen of North America. It is perhaps 

 worth noticing, in this connection, that the Greeks beheved also that the 

 Pleiades were being pursued by Orion, the gigantic hunter who, after his- 

 death at the hands of his fair but jealous companion, Artemis, was placed 

 among the stars together with his hound. 



