Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for March

Where Go the Boats?

Dark brown is the river,
Golden is the sand.
It flows along for ever,
With trees on either hand.

Green leaves a-floating,
Castles of the foam,
Boats of mine a-boating—
Where will all come home?

On goes the river
And out past the mill,
Away down the valley,
Away down the hill.

Away down the river,
A hundred miles or more,
Other little children
Shall bring my boats ashore.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 40	The Travelling-Cloak from The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock	The Kingdoms from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	A Royal Dresser and a Late Nester from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	FIRE: THE SECOND STORY from The Forge in the Forest by Padraic Colum Old King Fork-Beard and the Scarf That He Gave from The Forge in the Forest by Padraic Colum	Golden Goa from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	The Wolf Hunt (Part 2 of 2) from The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major	The Prophet's Story of the Little Lamb from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Pocahontas Begs for Smith's Life from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis The Effect of Captain Smith's Return from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis A New Church from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	A Round Goldenrod Gall from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Monkey and the Camel from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Get Hold of a Savage from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	The Stone Lion from Merry Tales by Eleanor L. Skinner	Unc' Billy Possum Lies Low from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess	The Shark Story from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	The Raggle, Taggle Gypsies, Anonymous	The Bottle-Tree by Eugene Field		Big Smith by Juliana Horatia Ewing	Dream Song by Walter de la Mare	The City Mouse and the Garden Mouse by Christina Georgina Rossetti	If I Were a Sunbeam by Lucy Larcom

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

Belling the Cat

The mice once called a meeting to decide on a plan to free themselves of their enemy, the Cat. At least they wished to find some way of knowing when she was coming, so they might have time to run away. Indeed, something had to be done, for they lived in such constant fear of her claws that they hardly dared stir from their dens by night or day.

Many plans were discussed, but none of them was thought good enough. At last a very young Mouse got up and said:

"I have a plan that seems very simple, but I know it will be successful. All we have to do is to hang a bell about the Cat's neck. When we hear the bell ringing we will know immediately that our enemy is coming."

All the Mice were much surprised that they had not thought of such a plan before. But in the midst of the rejoicing over their good fortune, an old Mouse arose and said:

"I will say that the plan of the young Mouse is very good. But let me ask one question Who will bell the Cat?"

It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.