Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for December


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 20 Pinocchio Is Liberated from Prison from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi The Story of William Tell from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin More of the Blackbird Family from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess The Stone of Victory (Part 1 of 3) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum The Hero of Two Nations from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge Betsy Starts a Sewing Society (Part 2 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher The Little Boy with a Linen Coat from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Captain John Smith Comes to London from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Meeting Captain Smith from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Captain Smith Speaks to Me from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis 		More About Mr. Crab from Seaside and Wayside, Book One by Julia McNair Wright The Plane Tree from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I Make Me a Calendar from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin The Teeny Tiny Woman from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner A Plot To Frighten Old Man Coyote from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess A New Home from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
A Friend in the Garden by Juliana Horatia Ewing Good Night and Good Morning by Richard Monckton Milnes   Little Bud Dandelion by Helen Barron Bostwick The Little Bird by Walter de la Mare The Fairies by William Allingham A Barefoot Boy by James Whitcomb Riley
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Ass and the Load of Salt

A Merchant, driving his Ass homeward from the seashore with a heavy load of salt, came to a river crossed by a shallow ford. They had crossed this river many times before without accident, but this time the Ass slipped and fell when halfway over. And when the Merchant at last got him to his feet, much of the salt had melted away. Delighted to find how much lighter his burden had become, the Ass finished the journey very gayly.

Next day the Merchant went for another load of salt. On the way home the Ass, remembering what had happened at the ford, purposely let himself fall into the water, and again got rid of most of his burden.

The angry Merchant immediately turned about and drove the Ass back to the seashore, where he loaded him with two great baskets of sponges. At the ford the Ass again tumbled over; but when he had scrambled to his feet, it was a very disconsolate Ass that dragged himself homeward under a load ten times heavier than before.

The same measures will not suit all circumstances.


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The Ass and the Load of Salt