Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for December

The Horseman

I heard a horseman
Ride over the hill;
The moon shone clear,
The night was still;
His helm was silver,
And pale was he;
And the horse he rode
Was of ivory.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 12	Pinocchio Is Taken In by the Fox and the Cat from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	The Miller of the Dee from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	Peter Learns Something He Hadn't Guessed from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	How Maid-alone Ceased Being a Goose-herd from The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes by Padraic Colum	The Destruction of Pompeii from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	What Grade Is Betsy? (Part 2 of 2) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher	How a Woman Won a Great Victory from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Homes in Iceland (Part 1 of 3) from Viking Tales by Jennie Hall	Red Oak and Live Oak (Part 1 of 2) from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Fox and the Grapes from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Have a Strange Visitor from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	Jason and the Golden Fleece from A Child's Book of Myths and Enchantment Tales by Margaret Evans Price	What Reddy Fox Saw and Did from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess	The Cape Horn Story from The Sandman: His Ship Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	The Sing-Away Bird by Lucy Larcom	Dandelions by Helen Gray Cone		Ready for Duty by Anna B. Warner	Wanderers by Walter de la Mare	March by Lucy Larcom	Seven Times One by Jean Ingelow

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Old Lion and the Fox

An old Lion, whose teeth and claws were so worn that it was not so easy for him to get food as in his younger days, pretended that he was sick. He took care to let all his neighbors know about it, and then lay down in his cave to wait for visitors. And when they came to offer him their sympathy, he ate them up one by one.

The Fox came too, but he was very cautious about it. Standing at a safe distance from the cave, he inquired politely after the Lion's health. The Lion replied that he was very ill indeed, and asked the Fox to step in for a moment. But Master Fox very wisely stayed outside, thanking the Lion very kindly for the invitation.

"I should be glad to do as you ask," he added, "but I have noticed that there are many foot prints leading into your cave and none coming out. Pray tell me, how do your visitors find their way out again?"

Take warning from the misfortunes of others.