First Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for April

If All the World Were Paper



The Little Cock Sparrow



Ye Song of Sixpence



My Lady's Garden



Time To Rise

A birdie with a yellow bill

Hopped upon my window sill,

Cocked his shining eye and said:

"Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-head!"

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Week 44 Away to the South from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Kit Carson and the Bears from Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston The Fine Young Rat and the Trap from Among the Farmyard People by Clara Dillingham Pierson Titelli-Ture from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Up the Stairs by Lisa M. Ripperton The Roman Fleet from On the Shores of the Great Sea by M. B. Synge Judas Iscariot Day (Part 2 of 2) from The Mexican Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins How Moses Looked Upon the Promised Land from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
A Bonny Boat by Margaret Johnson 		Vespers by A. A. Milne
Peterkin Pout and Gregory Grout by Laura E. Richards 		Fairy Bread by Robert Louis Stevenson Good Night! by Victor Hugo The Fairies Have Never a Penny to Spend by Rose Fyleman Goodbye by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Lion and the Mouse

A Lion lay asleep in the forest, his great head resting on his paws. A timid little Mouse came upon him unexpectedly, and in her fright and haste to get away, ran across the Lion's nose. Roused from his nap, the Lion laid his huge paw angrily on the tiny creature to kill her.

"Spare me!" begged the poor Mouse. "Please let me go and some day I will surely repay you."

The Lion was much amused to think that a Mouse could ever help him. But he was generous and finally let the Mouse go.

Some days later, while stalking his prey in the forest, the Lion was caught in the toils of a hunter's net. Unable to free himself, he filled the forest with his angry roaring. The Mouse knew the voice and quickly found the Lion struggling in the net. Running to one of the great ropes that bound him, she gnawed it until it parted, and soon the Lion was free.


[Illustration]

"You laughed when I said I would repay you," said the Mouse. "Now you see that even a Mouse can help a Lion."

A kindness is never wasted.