Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for May

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 44	Bewildered from The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock	Maximilian and the Goose Boy from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	Farewells and Welcomes from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	AIR: THE FIRST STORY from The Forge in the Forest by Padraic Colum Saint Martin and the Honest Man from The Forge in the Forest by Padraic Colum	The West Indies from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	The Black Gully (Part 1 of 2) from The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major	Saint Martin from In God's Garden by Amy Steedman
	The Story of Roanoke from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis The Crowning of Powhatan from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis Preparing for the Future from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	Swallows on the Wires (Part 1 of 3) from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Lion, the Bear and the Fox from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I See a Strange Sail from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	The Story of Li'l' Hannibal from Merry Tales by Eleanor L. Skinner	Farmer Brown's Boy Chops Down a Tree from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess	The Stowaway Story from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	The Land of Story-Books by Robert Louis Stevenson	How the Leaves Came Down by Susan Coolidge		The Fairies' Shopping by Margaret Deland	Alone by Walter de la Mare	The Fir-Tree by Edith M. Thomas	The Chestnut Burr, Anonymous

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.