Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for February

All But Blind

All but blind
In his chambered hole
Gropes for worms
The four-clawed Mole.

All but blind
In the evening sky
The hooded Bat
Twirls softly by.

All but blind
In the burning day
The Barn-Owl blunders
On her way.

And blind as are
These three to me,
So blind to someone
I must be.

	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 Shepherd Boy and the Wolf

A Shepherd Boy tended his master's Sheep near a dark forest not far from the village. Soon he found life in the pasture very dull. All he could do to amuse himself was to talk to his dog or play on his shepherd's pipe.

One day as he sat watching the Sheep and the quiet forest, and thinking what he would do should he see a Wolf, he thought of a plan to amuse himself.

His Master had told him to call for help should a Wolf attack the flock, and the Villagers would drive it away. So now, though he had not seen anything that even looked like a Wolf, he ran toward the village shouting at the top of his voice, "Wolf! Wolf!"

As he expected, the Villagers who heard the cry dropped their work and ran in great excitement to the pasture. But when they got there they found the Boy doubled up with laughter at the trick he had played on them.

A few days later the Shepherd Boy again shouted, "Wolf! Wolf!" Again the Villagers ran to help him, only to be laughed at again. Then one evening as the sun was setting behind the forest and the shadows were creeping out over the pasture, a Wolf really did spring from the underbrush and fall upon the Sheep.

In terror the Boy ran toward the village shouting "Wolf! Wolf!" But though the Villagers heard the cry, they did not run to help him as they had before. "He cannot fool us again," they said.

The Wolf killed a great many of the Boy's sheep and then slipped away into the forest.

Liars are not believed even when they speak the truth.