Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for July

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.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 45	Helpless No More from The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock	The Inchcape Rock from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	Honker and Dippy Arrive from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	AIR: THE SECOND STORY from The Forge in the Forest by Padraic Colum Bellerophon from The Forge in the Forest by Padraic Colum	Columbus in Chains from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	The Black Gully (Part 2 of 2) from The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major	Absalom in the Wood; David on the Throne (Part 2 of 2) from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Stealing the Company's Goods from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis What the Thieving Led To from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis Fear of Famine in a Land of Plenty from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	New Coats for Bluebirds (Part 2 of 3) from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Wolf and the Lamb from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Make a Bold Rescue from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	The Jackal and the Alligator 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 Albatross Story from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins The Derelict Story from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	Romance by Gabriel Setoun	Norse Lullaby by Eugene Field		Hiawatha's Childhood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Earth Folk by Walter de la Mare	The Winter Robin by Thomas Bailey Aldrich	The Raggedy Man by James Whitcomb Riley

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The North Wind and the Sun

The North Wind and the Sun had a quarrel about which of them was the stronger. While they were disputing with much heat and bluster, a Traveler passed along the road wrapped in a cloak.

"Let us agree," said the Sun, "that he is the stronger who can strip that Traveler of his cloak."

"Very well," growled the North Wind, and at once sent a cold, howling blast against the Traveler.

With the first gust of wind the ends of the cloak whipped about the Traveler's body. But he immediately wrapped it closely around him, and the harder the Wind blew, the tighter he held it to him. The North Wind tore angrily at the cloak, but all his efforts were in vain.

Then the Sun began to shine. At first his beams were gentle, and in the pleasant warmth after the bitter cold of the North Wind, the Traveler unfastened his cloak and let it hang loosely from his shoulders. The Sun's rays grew warmer and warmer. The man took off his cap and mopped his brow. At last he became so heated that he pulled off his cloak, and, to escape the blazing sunshine, threw himself down in the welcome shade of a tree by the roadside.

Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail.