Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for November


The Land of Counterpane

When I was sick and lay a-bed,

I had two pillows at my head,

And all my toys beside me lay,

To keep me happy all the day.


And sometimes for an hour or so

I watched my leaden soldiers go,

With different uniforms and drills,

Among the bed-clothes, through the hills;


And sometimes sent my ships in fleets

All up and down among the sheets;

Or brought my trees and houses out,

And planted cities all about.


I was the giant great and still

That sits upon the pillow-hill,

And sees before him, dale and plain,

The pleasant land of counterpane.

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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 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.


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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.


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