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Ailsa McKillop
Edgar, clutching an expensive telescope, had assembled his colleagues outside in the dead of night to benefit from his lecture on constellations in the Northern Hemisphere. Little Bear had been excited to hear there was a group of stars named after him but was bewildered on seeing it looked like a ladle! "Or a shopping trolley," flippantly suggested the Rattlesnake. The Lamb quibbled about Aries. "Nothing like Dad," she said, and Baby Goat hadn't realised she was triangular. Blue Scaly Monster had a go at lightening the mood. "If I go like this, I look like the Corona Borealis," he declared. Ignoring him, Edgar informed them that in the Southern Hemisphere was to be seen the constellation Corvus, which (as Edgar was all too fond of pointing out to them) was Latin for "raven". "Why don't you fly there now?" the Rattlesnake was heard to mutter. [Please forgive the liberal artistic licence utilised for any constellations depicted!]