Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for September

A Diamond or a Coal?

A diamond or a coal?
A diamond, if you please:
Who cares about a clumsy coal
Beneath the summer trees?

A diamond or a coal?
A coal, sir, if you please:
One comes to care about the coal
What time the waters freeze.

	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 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.

"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.