Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for June

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 21	Pinocchio Becomes a Watch-Dog from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	Arnold Winkelried from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	Bob White and Carol the Meadow Lark from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	The Stone of Victory (Part 2 of 3) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum	The Hardy Northmen from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	Betsy Starts a Sewing Society (Part 3 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher	How the Idol Fell Down before the Ark from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	The Plans of the London Company from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis The Vessels of the Fleet from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis How I Earned My Passage from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	Mr. and Mrs. Crab Get a New Coat from Seaside and Wayside, Book One by Julia McNair Wright	The Farmer and the Stork from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Sow Some Grain from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	The Wee Bannock from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner	Sammy Jay Delivers His Message from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess	Housekeeping from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
	Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson	The Swallow's Nest by Edwin Arnold		Remorse by Sydney Dayre	Will Ever? by Walter de la Mare	The Light-Hearted Fairy, Anonymous	Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson

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.