Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for December

All But Blind

All but blind
In his chambered hole
Gropes for worms
The four-clawed Mole.

All but blind
In the evening sky
The hooded Bat
Twirls softly by.

All but blind
In the burning day
The Barn-Owl blunders
On her way.

And blind as are
These three to me,
So blind to someone
I must be.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 15	The Assassins Pursue Pinocchio from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	Sir Humphrey Gilbert from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	Old Clothes and Old Houses from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	The Matchless Maiden Loses Her Golden Slipper (Part 1 of 2) from The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes by Padraic Colum	Christians to the Lions from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	If You Don't Like Conversation, Skip This Chapter (Part 3 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher	Jephthah's Rash Promise and What Came from It from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Eric the Red from Viking Tales by Jennie Hall	Don's Yellow Spring Flower from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Ass and His Driver from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Go A-Hunting from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	Romulus and Remus from A Child's Book of Myths and Enchantment Tales by Margaret Evans Price	Old Granny Fox Investigates from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess	The Little Sol Story from The Sandman: His Ship Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	April Rain by Robert Loveman	All Things Bright and Beautiful by Cecil Frances Alexander		Hark! Hark! The Lark! by William Shakespeare	The Universe by Walter de la Mare	Answer to a Child's Question by Samuel Taylor Coleridge	A Sudden Shower by James Whitcomb Riley

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Fox and the Stork

The Fox one day thought of a plan to amuse himself at the expense of the Stork, at whose odd appearance he was always laughing.

"You must come and dine with me today," he said to the Stork, smiling to himself at the trick he was going to play. The Stork gladly accepted the invitation and arrived in good time and with a very good appetite.

For dinner the Fox served soup. But it was set out in a very shallow dish, and all the Stork could do was to wet the very tip of his bill. Not a drop of soup could he get. But the Fox lapped it up easily, and, to increase the disappointment of the Stork, made a great show of enjoyment.

The hungry Stork was much displeased at the trick, but he was a calm, even-tempered fellow and saw no good in flying into a rage. Instead, not long afterward, he invited the Fox to dine with him in turn. The Fox arrived promptly at the time that had been set, and the Stork served a fish dinner that had a very appetizing smell. But it was served in a tall jar with a very narrow neck. The Stork could easily get at the food with his long bill, but all the Fox could do was to lick the outside of the jar, and sniff at the delicious odor. And when the Fox lost his temper, the Stork said calmly:

Do not play tricks on your neighbors unless you can stand the same treatment yourself.