General Scouting Outdoors 213 



THE MOON 



The Moon is one fifth the diameter of the Earth, about 

 one fiftieth of the bulk, and is about a quarter milUon 

 miles away. Its course, while very irregular, is nearly the 

 same as the apparent course of the Sun. But "in winter 

 the full Moon is at an altitude in the sky near the hmit 

 attained by the Sun in summer, . . . and even, at 

 certain times, five degrees higher. It is the contrary in 

 summer, a season when the Moon remains very low" (F.). 



The Moon goes around the Earth in twenty-seven and a 

 quarter days. It loses nearly three quarters of an hour 

 each night; that is, it rises that much later. 



"Astronomy with an Opera Glass." Garrett P. Serviss, 

 D. Appleton & Co., New York City. Price, $1.50. 



MAKING A DAM 



When I was a boy we had no natural swimming pool, 

 but there was a small stream across our farm; and I with 

 my two friends succeeded in making a pool, partly by dam- 



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ming up the little stream, and partly by digging out the 

 place above the dam. 



The first things needed were two logs long enough to 



