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 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
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Fox and the Goat

A Fox fell into a well, and though it was not very deep, he found that he could not get out again. After he had been in the well a long time, a thirsty Goat came by. The Goat thought the Fox had gone down to drink, and so he asked if the water was good.


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"The finest in the whole country," said the crafty Fox, "jump in and try it. There is more than enough for both of us."

The thirsty Goat immediately jumped in and began to drink. The Fox just as quickly jumped on the Goat's back and leaped from the tip of the Goat's horns out of the well.

The foolish Goat now saw what a plight he had got into, and begged the Fox to help him out. But the Fox was already on his way to the woods.

"If you had as much sense as you have beard, old fellow," he said as he ran, "you would have been more cautious about finding a way to get out again before you jumped in."

Look before you leap.