Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for June


The Land of Story-Books

At evening when the lamp is lit,

Around the fire my parents sit;

They sit at home and talk and sing,

And do not play at anything.


Now, with my little gun, I crawl

All in the dark along the wall,

And follow round the forest track

Away behind the sofa back.


There, in the night, where none can spy,

All in my hunter's camp I lie,

And play at books that I have read

Till it is time to go to bed.


These are the hills, these are the woods,

These are my starry solitudes;

And there the river by whose brink

The roaring lions come to drink.


I see the others far away

As if in firelit camp they lay,

And I, like to an Indian scout,

Around their party prowled about.


So when my nurse comes in for me,

Home I return across the sea,

And go to bed with backward looks

At my dear land of Story-Books.

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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
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Frogs and the Ox

An Ox came down to a reedy pool to drink. As he splashed heavily into the water, he crushed a young Frog into the mud. The old Frog soon missed the little one and asked his brothers and sisters what had become of him.

"A great big  monster," said one of them, "stepped on little brother with one of his huge feet!"

"Big, was he!" said the old Frog, puffing herself up. "Was he as big as this?"


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"Oh, much  bigger!" they cried.

The Frog puffed up still more. "He could not have been bigger than this," she said. But the little Frogs all declared that the monster was much, much  bigger and the old Frog kept puffing herself out more and more until, all at once, she burst.

Do not attempt the impossible.