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deep in the ground, to sleep, she gets out and comes away if he be 

 cross or irritated. 



She, the moon, has great love for her children, the stars, and is, 

 happy to travel among them in the above ; and they, her children, 

 feel safe and sing and dance as she passes along. But the mother, 

 she cannot help that some of her children must be swallowed by 

 the father every month. It is ordered that way by Pah-ah (Great 

 Spirit), who lives above the place of all. 



Every month that father, the sun, does swallow up some of the 

 stars, his children, and then that mother, the moon, feels sorrow. 

 She must mourn. So she must put the black on her face for to 

 mourn the dead. You see the Pmte women put black on their 

 faces when a child is gone. But the dark will wear away from the 

 face of that mother, the moon — a little and a little every day — and 

 after a time again we see all bright the face of her. But soon 

 more of her children are gone, and again she must put on her face 

 the pitch and the black. 



We will now pass by an easy transition to another more 

 dangerous monster, viz: "The Dragon.'' Its name is lost in 

 considerable obscurity, but we know it to be of the lizard family, 

 with a touch of the serpent about the tail. It was certainly a 

 fearsome beast, inasmuch as in its internal economy, it possessed 

 the power of vomiting forth fire and smoke and was worthy of the 

 noblest efforts of the gods and heroes of heathen mythology. Thus 

 a dragon watched the garden of the Hesperules, and its destruction 

 formed one of the seven labours of Hercules. Its existence does 

 not seem even to have been called in qaestion by the older 

 naturalists (says the Ency. Britt.) figures of the dragon, appearing 

 in the works of Gesner, and even specimens of the monster 

 (evidently formed of portions of various animals), have been ex- 

 hibited. The only creature ever known to have existed at all, 

 comparable to this imaginary monster, are the Pterodactyls re- 

 mains of which have been found in the Liassic and Oolitic for- 

 mation. These were huge reptiles, provided with true wings, 

 somewhat resembling those of bats. It will be remembered that 

 the dragon plays a great part in the Heraldic History of Eng- 

 land, and occupies a prominent place on the largest of oar 

 silver coins, where he is doing his best to look pleasant under the 

 horse's hoofs of the mighty St. George the patron saint of "Merrie 

 England." 



St. George, I believe, still forms a degree of honour among the 

 knights of to-day, and there is a cross of St. George with dragon 

 and all presented to those who may by their merits be deemed 

 worthy of its reception. St. Michael also slays a dragon, as we 

 read in Revelations, and in the great East Window of St. Michael's 

 Church there is a very artistic representation of the encounter. 



