Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for August

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.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 9	Pinocchio Sells His Spelling-Book from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	The Black Douglas from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	The Old Orchard Bully from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	Water for the King's Son from The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes by Padraic Colum	Voyage and Shipwreck from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	Betsy Goes to School (Part 1 of 2) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher	The Present That Ehud Brought to King Eglon from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	The Sea Fight from Viking Tales by Jennie Hall	A Frog Chorus (Part 2 of 3) from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	Hercules and the Wagoner from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Make Me a Raft from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	Daedalus and Icarus from A Child's Book of Myths and Enchantment Tales by Margaret Evans Price	Jimmy Skunk and Unc' Billy Possum Tell Stories from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess	The Fitting Story from The Sandman: His Ship Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	The Fairies by William Allingham	The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear	Eletelephony by Laura E. Richards	Nonsense Verse by Edward Lear	Nobody Knows by Walter de la Mare	The Four Winds by Frank Dempster Sherman	The First Bluebird by James Whitcomb Riley

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Hare and the Tortoise

A Hare was making fun of the Tortoise one day for being so slow.

"Do you ever get anywhere?" he asked with a mocking laugh.

"Yes," replied the Tortoise, "and I get there sooner than you think. I'll run you a race and prove it."

The Hare was much amused at the idea of running a race with the Tortoise, but for the fun of the thing he agreed. So the Fox, who had consented to act as judge, marked the distance and started the runners off.

The Hare was soon far out of sight, and to make the Tortoise feel very deeply how ridiculous it was for him to try a race with a Hare, he lay down beside the course to take a nap until the Tortoise should catch up.

The Tortoise meanwhile kept going slowly but steadily, and, after a time, passed the place where the Hare was sleeping. But the Hare slept on very peacefully; and when at last he did wake up, the Tortoise was near the goal. The Hare now ran his swiftest, but he could not overtake the Tortoise in time.

The race is not always to the swift.

The Hare and the Tortoise