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288 is a quotation from Mrs. Martin's Friendly Stars respecting the constellation: "With all its wonders and its beauties it is not strange that Orion should be one of the most familiar and most admired of all the constellations. It is in the centre of the Galaxy that marches in brilliant procession across the winter skies. We watch for it between nine and ten o'clock in the evening late in October, and our first view is of the curved line of faint twinkling stars that outline the left arm and the lion's skin.

Then one jewel after another emerges from the storehouse below the horizon until the whole splendid figure is before us. Its arrival is an announcement that the outdoor season is past and that the nights are becoming more and more frosty and that the gorgeous tapestry with which the autumn hills seem covered will soon fade away and give place to the lovely low tones of winter."