Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for April

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 40	The Travelling-Cloak from The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock	The Kingdoms from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	A Royal Dresser and a Late Nester from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	FIRE: THE SECOND STORY from The Forge in the Forest by Padraic Colum Old King Fork-Beard and the Scarf That He Gave from The Forge in the Forest by Padraic Colum	Golden Goa from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	The Wolf Hunt (Part 2 of 2) from The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major	The Prophet's Story of the Little Lamb from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Pocahontas Begs for Smith's Life from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis The Effect of Captain Smith's Return from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis A New Church from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	A Round Goldenrod Gall from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Monkey and the Camel from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Get Hold of a Savage from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	The Stone Lion from Merry Tales by Eleanor L. Skinner	Unc' Billy Possum Lies Low from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess	The Shark Story from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	The Raggle, Taggle Gypsies, Anonymous	The Bottle-Tree by Eugene Field		Big Smith by Juliana Horatia Ewing	Dream Song by Walter de la Mare	The City Mouse and the Garden Mouse by Christina Georgina Rossetti	If I Were a Sunbeam by Lucy Larcom

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The North Wind and the Sun

The North Wind and the Sun had a quarrel about which of them was the stronger. While they were disputing with much heat and bluster, a Traveler passed along the road wrapped in a cloak.

"Let us agree," said the Sun, "that he is the stronger who can strip that Traveler of his cloak."

"Very well," growled the North Wind, and at once sent a cold, howling blast against the Traveler.

With the first gust of wind the ends of the cloak whipped about the Traveler's body. But he immediately wrapped it closely around him, and the harder the Wind blew, the tighter he held it to him. The North Wind tore angrily at the cloak, but all his efforts were in vain.

Then the Sun began to shine. At first his beams were gentle, and in the pleasant warmth after the bitter cold of the North Wind, the Traveler unfastened his cloak and let it hang loosely from his shoulders. The Sun's rays grew warmer and warmer. The man took off his cap and mopped his brow. At last he became so heated that he pulled off his cloak, and, to escape the blazing sunshine, threw himself down in the welcome shade of a tree by the roadside.

Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail.