Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for March

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea 
In a beautiful pea-green boat:
They took some honey, and plenty of money 
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above, 
And sang to a small guitar,
"O lovely Pussy, O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are, 
You are! 
What a beautiful Pussy you are!"

Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl, 
How charmingly sweet you sing!
Oh! let us be married; too long we have tarried: 
But what shall we do for a ring?"
They sailed away, for a year and a day, 
To the land where the bong-tree grows; 
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood, 
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose, 
His nose, 
With a ring at the end of his nose.

"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling 
Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."
So they took it away, and were married next day 
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince and slices of quince, 
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon, 
The moon, 
They danced by the light of the moon.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 34	Pinocchio Is Thrown into the Sea from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	Alexander and Bucephalus from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	A New Friend and an Old One from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	What the Peacock and the Crow Told Each Other from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum	A Famous Voyage from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	How Balser Got a Gun (Part 2 of 2) from The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major	The Last Days of King Saul from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Surprised by Savages from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis Strengthening the Fort from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis A Time of Sickness and Death from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	The Bee That Cut Leaves from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	A Raven and a Swan from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Make a Surprising Discovery from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	The Monkey and the Crocodile from Merry Tales by Eleanor L. Skinner	Reddy Fox Goes Hungry from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess	The September-Gale Story from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	A Little Dutch Garden by Harriet Whitney Durbin	Hie Away by Sir Walter Scott		Farewell to the Farm by Robert Louis Stevenson	Song of Enchantment by Walter de la Mare	The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson	Who Has Seen the Wind? by Christina Georgina Rossetti

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.