Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for July

The Horseman

I heard a horseman
Ride over the hill;
The moon shone clear,
The night was still;
His helm was silver,
And pale was he;
And the horse he rode
Was of ivory.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 20	Pinocchio Is Liberated from Prison from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	The Story of William Tell from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	More of the Blackbird Family from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	The Stone of Victory (Part 1 of 3) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum	The Hero of Two Nations from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	Betsy Starts a Sewing Society (Part 2 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher	The Little Boy with a Linen Coat from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Captain John Smith Comes to London from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis Meeting Captain Smith from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis Captain Smith Speaks to Me from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	More About Mr. Crab from Seaside and Wayside, Book One by Julia McNair Wright	The Plane Tree from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Make Me a Calendar from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	The Teeny Tiny Woman from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner	A Plot To Frighten Old Man Coyote from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess	A New Home from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
	A Friend in the Garden by Juliana Horatia Ewing	Good Night and Good Morning by Richard Monckton Milnes		Little Bud Dandelion by Helen Barron Bostwick	The Little Bird by Walter de la Mare	The Fairies by William Allingham	A Barefoot Boy by James Whitcomb Riley

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Lion and the Mouse

A Lion lay asleep in the forest, his great head resting on his paws. A timid little Mouse came upon him unexpectedly, and in her fright and haste to get away, ran across the Lion's nose. Roused from his nap, the Lion laid his huge paw angrily on the tiny creature to kill her.

"Spare me!" begged the poor Mouse. "Please let me go and some day I will surely repay you."

The Lion was much amused to think that a Mouse could ever help him. But he was generous and finally let the Mouse go.

Some days later, while stalking his prey in the forest, the Lion was caught in the toils of a hunter's net. Unable to free himself, he filled the forest with his angry roaring. The Mouse knew the voice and quickly found the Lion struggling in the net. Running to one of the great ropes that bound him, she gnawed it until it parted, and soon the Lion was free.

"You laughed when I said I would repay you," said the Mouse. "Now you see that even a Mouse can help a Lion."

A kindness is never wasted.