Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for February

The Old Woman Tossed Up in a Blanket



The Carrion Crow



Sur le Pont d'Avignon



Charley over the Water

Alone

A very old woman

Lives in yon house.

The squeak of the cricket,

The stir of the mouse,

Are all she knows

Of the earth and us.


Once she was young,

Would dance and play,

Like many another

Young popinjay;

And run to her mother

At dusk of day.


And colours bright

She delighted in;

The fiddle to hear,

And to lift her chin,

And sing as small

As a twittering wren.


But age apace

Comes at last to all;

And a lone house filled

With the cricket's call;

And the scampering mouse

In the hollow wall.

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Week 50 "Birds of a Feather Flock Together" from The Birds' Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin Picciola from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin Queer Feet and a Queerer Bill from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess Hans Turns Sailor from The Christmas Porringer by Evaleen Stein Gabriel Interviews the Abbot from Gabriel and the Hour Book by Evaleen Stein The Hour Book from Gabriel and the Hour Book by Evaleen Stein The Count's Tax from Gabriel and the Hour Book by Evaleen Stein
Captain Smith's Departure from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
The "Starving Time" from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis 		Eggs on a Branch (Part 2 of 3) from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch Robber Hans and the Porringer from The Christmas Porringer by Evaleen Stein The Stranger Child from Good Stories for Great Holidays by Frances Jenkins Olcott Why Bruin Has a Stumpy Tail from The Pearl Story Book by Eleanor L. Skinner The Tailor of Gloucester from The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter The Race Story from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
Here We Come A-Whistling, Anonymous The Christmas Child by George MacDonald Snow Song by Frank Dempster Sherman Cradle Hymn by Martin Luther Silver Bells by Hamish Hendry The Waits by Margaret Deland A Christmas Carol by G. K. Chesterton
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Two Goats

Two Goats, frisking gayly on the rocky steeps of a mountain valley, chanced to meet, one on each side of a deep chasm through which poured a mighty mountain torrent. The trunk of a fallen tree formed the only means of crossing the chasm, and on this not even two squirrels could have passed each other in safety. The narrow path would have made the bravest tremble. Not so our Goats. Their pride would not permit either to stand aside for the other.

One set her foot on the log. The other did likewise. In the middle they met horn to horn. Neither would give way, and so they both fell, to be swept away by the roaring torrent below.

It is better to yield than to come to misfortune through stubbornness.


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