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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 believed 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.