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THE STORY OF THE PLEIADES
HE children's father had showed them a map of the heavens in an old astronomy that had belonged to their great-grandfather. He had also pointed out certain groups in the sky and had told them the old stories connected with each. They were charmed with their new knowledge, and night after night they insisted on indicating the Dipper, Orion, Cassiopeia's Chair, and the Pleiades, and repeating by turns the myth of each.
One day they were discussing the story of the Pleiades near the blacksmith shop. Wantasson stood at his door and listened to them.
"Ugh!" he muttered. "My people have a better story than that about the seven sisters,—a better story."
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