Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet



Songs for September


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.



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Week 36 Pinocchio Becomes a Boy at Last from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi The Brave Three Hundred from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin The Constant Singers from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess The Treasure of King Labraid Lorc (Part 1 of 2) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum The Stormy Cape from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge Lost in a Forest (Part 2 of 2) from The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major The Sound in the Treetops from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
The Second Proclamation from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Building a Fortified Village from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Trapping Turkeys from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Ants with Wings from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch The Ass and the Load of Salt from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I See Savages from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin The Fishing Party from Merry Tales by Eleanor L. Skinner Unc' Billy Possum Grows Hungry from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess The Porpoise Story from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
The Bee and the Flower by Alfred Lord Tennyson Runaway Brook by Elizabeth Lee Follen   Mine Host of "The Golden Apple" by Thomas Westwood Bunches of Grapes by Walter de la Mare September by Helen Hunt Jackson The Funniest Thing in the World by James Whitcomb Riley
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Ants and the Grasshopper

One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a bite to eat.

"What!" cried the Ants in surprise, "haven't you stored anything away for the winter? What in the world were you doing all last summer?"

"I didn't have time to store up any food," whined the Grasshopper; "I was so busy making music that before I knew it the summer was gone."


[Illustration]

The Ants shrugged their shoulders in disgust.

"Making music, were you?" they cried. "Very well; now dance!" And they turned their backs on the Grasshopper and went on with their work.

There's a time for work and a time for play.