Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for May


The Goops—Table Manners

The Goops they lick their fingers

And the Goops they lick their knives;

They spill their broth on the tablecloth—

Oh, they lead disgusting lives!

The Goops they talk while eating,

And loud and fast they chew;

And that is why I'm glad that I

Am not a Goop—are you?

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Week 26 Pinocchio Goes To See the Dog-Fish from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Cornelia's Jewels from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin A Maker of Thunder and a Friend in Black from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess Bloom-of-Youth and the Witch of the Elders (Part 2 of 2) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum The Third Crusade from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge Betsy Has a Birthday (Part 3 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher How Saul Saved the Eyes of the Men of Jabesh from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
The Leader Not Known from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Arrival at Chesapeake Bay from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
An Attack by the Savages from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis 		The Crab's Enemies from Seaside and Wayside, Book One by Julia McNair Wright The Owl and the Grasshopper from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I Build a Big Canoe from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin Frolic of the WiId Things from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner Unc' Billy Possum Sends for His Family from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess The Race from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Daybreak by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson   The Fairies of the Caldon Low by Mary Howitt A Widow's Weeds by Walter de la Mare To Violets by Robert Herrick Fairy-Folk by Alice Cary
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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.


[Illustration]

"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.