THE DOG STAR
.Five thousand years before the Christian era, the Egyptian peasant, as lie watched each year for the happening of a great miracle, .the rising of the Nile, noticed that its gracious waters began to trickle over his parched land just at the time that a certain glorious star appeared above the horizon. And so inevitably did, the rising of the Nile follow upon the. rising of the star that, to the peasant, the star's faithfulness could only be compared to the faithfulness of his dog, and thus Sirius came to be called, the Dog Sta*.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 63, 9 April 1943, Page 6
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98THE DOG STAR Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 63, 9 April 1943, Page 6
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