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.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 28	Pinocchio Is in Danger of Being Fried from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	Horatius at the Bridge from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	A Fishing Party from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	The Hen-wife's Son and the Princess Bright Brow (Part 2 of 3) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum	Queen of the Adriatic from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	"Understood Aunt Frances" (Part 2 of 4) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher	Saul's Great Sin and His Great Loss from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Exploring the Country from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis People Land from the Ships from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis Captain Smith Proven Innocent from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	Helping Mother Oriole from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Oak and the Reeds from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Have a Perilous Adventure from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	Lambikin from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner	Bobby Coon Is Waked Up from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess	Ginseng from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
	Queen Mab by Thomas Hood	The Fly-Away Horse by Eugene Field		A Sad Little Lass by Margaret Johnson	King David by Walter de la Mare	Hiawatha's Sailing by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	A Lesson of Mercy by Alice Cary

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Milkmaid and Her Pail

A Milkmaid had been out to milk the cows and was returning from the field with the shining milk pail balanced nicely on her head. As she walked along, her pretty head was busy with plans for the days to come.

"This good, rich milk," she reused, "will give me plenty of cream to churn. The butter I make I will take to market, and with the money I get for it I will buy a lot of eggs for hatching. How nice it will be when they are all hatched and the yard is full of fine young chicks. Then when May day comes I will sell them, and with the money I'll buy a lovely new dress to wear to the fair. All the young men will look at me. They will come and try to make love to me,—but I shall very quickly send them about their business!"

As she thought of how she would settle that matter, she tossed her head scornfully, and down fell the pail of milk to the ground. And all the milk flowed out, and with it vanished butter and eggs and chicks and new dress and all the milkmaid's pride.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.