Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for November


The City Mouse and the Garden Mouse

The city mouse lives in a house—

The garden mouse lives in a bower,

He's friendly with the frogs and toads,

And sees the pretty plants in flower.


The city mouse eats bread and cheese—

The garden mouse eats what he can;

We will not grudge him seeds and stalks,

Poor little timid furry man.

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Week 27 The Fight between Pinocchio and His Companions from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Androclus and the Lion from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin A Fisherman Robbed from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess The Hen-wife's Son and the Princess Bright Brow (Part 1 of 3) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum The Days of Chivalry from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge "Understood Aunt Frances" (Part 1 of 4) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher The Brave Young Prince from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Reading the London Company's Orders from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Captain Smith a Member of the Council from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Captain Smith Forced To Remain Aboard from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis 		The Uses of Crabs from Seaside and Wayside, Book One by Julia McNair Wright The Wolf and His Shadow from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I Make an Umbrella from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin Little Black Ant from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner Bobby Coon Enters the Wrong House from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess More Education from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Friends by Abbie Farwell Brown Daisies by Frank Dempster Sherman   The Dumb Soldier by Robert Louis Stevenson All But Blind by Walter de la Mare The Succession of the Four Sweet Months by Robert Herrick Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Frogs Who Wished for a King

The Frogs were tired of governing themselves. They had so much freedom that it had spoiled them, and they did nothing but sit around croaking in a bored manner and wishing for a government that could entertain them with the pomp and display of royalty, and rule them in a way to make them know they were being ruled. No milk and water government for them, they declared. So they sent a petition to Jupiter asking for a king.

Jupiter saw what simple and foolish creatures they were, but to keep them quiet and make them think they had a king he threw down a huge log, which fell into the water with a great splash. The Frogs hid themselves among the reeds and grasses, thinking the new king to be some fearful giant. But they soon discovered how tame and peaceable King Log was. In a short time the younger Frogs were using him for a diving platform, while the older Frogs made him a meeting place, where they complained loudly to Jupiter about the government.

To teach the Frogs a lesson the ruler of the gods now sent a Crane to be king of Frogland. The Crane proved to be a very different sort of king from old King Log. He gobbled up the poor Frogs right and left and they soon saw what fools they had been. In mournful croaks they begged Jupiter to take away the cruel tyrant before they should all be destroyed.


[Illustration]

"How now!" cried Jupiter "Are you not yet content? You have what you asked for and so you have only yourselves to blame for your misfortunes."

Be sure you can better your condition before you seek to change.