Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for December

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 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 Old Lion and the Fox

An old Lion, whose teeth and claws were so worn that it was not so easy for him to get food as in his younger days, pretended that he was sick. He took care to let all his neighbors know about it, and then lay down in his cave to wait for visitors. And when they came to offer him their sympathy, he ate them up one by one.

The Fox came too, but he was very cautious about it. Standing at a safe distance from the cave, he inquired politely after the Lion's health. The Lion replied that he was very ill indeed, and asked the Fox to step in for a moment. But Master Fox very wisely stayed outside, thanking the Lion very kindly for the invitation.

"I should be glad to do as you ask," he added, "but I have noticed that there are many foot prints leading into your cave and none coming out. Pray tell me, how do your visitors find their way out again?"

Take warning from the misfortunes of others.