Her eyes were very large and some critics said that she was in the habit of making play with those eyes, but the fact is that nature had made them so to shine and to look, that they could no more help so looking and shining than one star can help being brighter than another.

she added: and she raised her glistening eyes to heaven, and gazed, hopefully and trustingly, on one bright star that shone upon her between the summits of the lofty trees.

A star or two already shone faint in the lower spaces.

"Quite the star, after your comedy turn."

It was early on the morning of June 13, 1796, just twenty years after the Declaration of Independence, that Captain Felix Lane, of the good ship Ocean Star, was on his voyage from Rio to Baltimore with a cargo of coffee.

" "No, for the Ocean Star can show a pair of clean heels to anything afloat.

The Ocean Star was a little to windward of the stranger with the starboard tacks aboard, and Captain Lane knew it was the stranger's duty to "bear up" and keep away.

The stranger ran a couple of lengths astern the Ocean Star, swung his main-yard aback and hailed; but while the bold buccaneer was doing this, Captain Lane had performed an equally sea-manlike manoeuvre.

The Ocean Star was a sharp, strong, fast-sailing vessel, and was under good headway and perfect control.

the captain shouted aft, and, paying off like a bird, the Ocean Star swept by the stranger's stern near enough to almost touch her.

The captain gave the necessary orders, and "hove to" within three or four cables' length of the stranger; and in a very few minutes a four-oared boat, containing but a single figure besides the crew, was seen approaching the Ocean Star.

Captain Lane had a ladder put over the gangway and threw a rope to the boat as it came alongside; and the next moment the stranger sprang upon the deck of the Ocean Star.

It did not come as it was expected; it had worked up from the westward, but struck the Ocean Star dead from the South.

Taking hold with him, by their united efforts they at last succeeded; and, after a moment's suspense, the Ocean Star slowly wore off before the wind and, rising out of the water, shook herself like an affrighted spaniel and darted off with fearful speed before the hurricane.

About half an hour after the squall first struck themthe captain of the Ocean Star was standing with his two officers on the quarter-deck, "conning the vessel by the feel of the wind and rain," keeping her dead before the galewhen there came a flash and a peal which made them cower almost to the decks.

Jumping into his boat, with the little stranger nestling in his arms, Captain Lane was soon aboard the Ocean Star, and with a fair wind and sunny skies was once more homeward bound.

Would he ever see her again, or was she only the evening star, which had risen on the last hours of his existence?

And when Fernando said, "not friends" he hoped, Morgianna was quite surprised and said not enemies she hoped; and when Fernando suggested that they might be something better than either, Morgianna, all of a sudden, found a star, which was brighter than all the other stars, and begged to call his attention to the same, and was ten times more innocent and unconscious than ever.

America has never had a war in which the brave sons of the Emerald Isle have not been found under the star-spangled banner, musket in hand, risking their lives for their adopted country.

Regularly he meets the arriving trains and by the glistening three-inch nickel star pinned to his left suspender announces to the traveling world that here, on the one time woolly Kiowa, law and order at last prevail.

"Not seldom from the uproar I retired Into a silent bay, or sportively Glanced sideway, leaving the tumultuous throng, TO CUT ACROSS THE REFLEX OF A STAR; IMAGE THAT FLYING STILL BEFORE ME gleamed Upon the glassy plain: and oftentime

It is certain that only a very imaginative mind could have seen such details as he has gathered together in the lines describing how he "Cut across the reflex of a star; Image that flying still before me gleamed Upon the glassy plain.

One of the strangest is the Brittle Star.

Perhaps the Brittle Star has found this dodge useful in escaping from enemies.

3. How does the Starfish feed on the oyster? 4. Why is the Brittle Star given that name?