Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for June


Some One

Some one came knocking

At my wee, small door;

Some one came knocking,

I'm sure—sure—sure;

I listened, I opened,

I looked to left and right,

But naught there was a-stirring

In the still dark night;

Only the busy beetle

Tap-tapping in the wall,

Only from the forest

The screech-owl's call,

Only the cricket whistling

While the dewdrops fall,

So I know not who came knocking,

At all, at all, at all.

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Week 16 Pinocchio Is Found and Put to Bed from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Sir Walter Raleigh from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin Longbill and Teeter from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess The Matchless Maiden Loses Her Golden Slipper (Part 2 of 2) from The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes by Padraic Colum A New Rome from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge Elizabeth Ann Fails in an Examination (Part 1 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher Saint Catherine of Siena from In God's Garden by Amy Steedman
Leif and His New Land from Viking Tales by Jennie Hall White Feathers from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch The Oxen and the Wheels from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I Keep Myself Busy from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin Orpheus and Eurydice from A Child's Book of Myths and Enchantment Tales by Margaret Evans Price Old Granny Fox Loses Her Dignity from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess The Deserted Ship Story from The Sandman: His Ship Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
Prince Tatters by Laura E. Richards The Little Plant by Kate L. Brown   The Four Princesses by Kate Greenaway Tom's Little Dog by Walter de la Mare The Bluebird by Emily Huntington Miller One, Two, Three by Henry C. Bunner
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Goose and the Golden Egg

There was once a Countryman who possessed the most wonderful Goose you can imagine, for every day when he visited the nest, the Goose had laid a beautiful, glittering, golden egg.


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The Goose and the Golden Egg

The Countryman took the eggs to market and soon began to get rich. But it was not long before he grew impatient with the Goose because she gave him only a single golden egg a day. He was not getting rich fast enough.

Then one day, after he had finished counting his money, the idea came to him that he could get all the golden eggs at once by killing the Goose and cutting it open. But when the deed was done, not a single golden egg did he find, and his precious Goose was dead.

Those who have plenty want more and so lose all they have.