Third Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for February

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe—
Sailed on a river of crystal light,
Into a sea of dew.
"Where are you going, and what do you wish?"
The old moon asked the three.
"We have come to fish for the herring-fish
That live in this beautiful sea;
Nets of silver and gold have we!"
Said Wynken,
Blynken,
And Nod.

The old moon laughed and sang a song,
As they rocked in the wooden shoe,
And the wind that sped them all night long
Ruffled the waves of dew.
The little stars were the herring-fish
That lived in the beautiful sea—
"Now cast your nets wherever you wish,—
Never afeard are we!"
So cried the stars to the fishermen three:
Wynken,
Blynken,
And Nod.

All night long their nets they threw
To the stars in the twinkling foam,—
Then down from the skies came the wooden shoe,
Bringing the fishermen home;
'Twas all so pretty a sail, it seemed
As if it could not be,
And some folks thought 'twas a dream they'd dreamed
Of sailing that beautiful sea—
But I shall name you the fishermen three:
Wynken,
Blynken,
And Nod.

Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes,
And Nod is a little head,
And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies
Is a wee one's trundle-bed.
So shut your eyes while Mother sings
Of wonderful sights that be,
And you shall see the beautiful things
As you rock in the misty sea,
Where the old shoe rocked the fishermen three—
Wynken,
Blynken,
And Nod.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 44	A Compensation from Heidi by Johanna Spyri	Story of the Battle of Bannockburn from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall	Following the Deer (Part 2 of 6) from Secrets of the Woods by William J. Long	The Death of Robin Hood from Stories of Robin Hood Told to the Children by H. E. Marshall	Two Famous Admirals from The Awakening of Europe by M. B. Synge	The Flax from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Aboard the Ship by Lisa M. Ripperton	The New Temple on Mount Moriah from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	The Caliph and the Gardener from Fifty Famous People by James Baldwin	Sir Talis from Holiday Hill by Edith M. Patch	Daniel Webster (Part 4 of 5) from Four Great Americans by James Baldwin	The Frog and the Mouse from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	Daedalus and Icarus from A Child's Book of Myths and Enchantment Tales by Margaret Evans Price	A Look at a House-Fly from Seaside and Wayside, Book Two by Julia McNair Wright	"Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears" (Part 2 of 3) from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
	Indian Summer by John Greenleaf Whittier	Thoughts by Sara Teasdale	Gaelic Lullaby, Anonymous	The Frost Spirit by John Greenleaf Whittier	Poem by Rachel Field	Indian Summer by John Greenleaf Whittier	How the Leaves Came Down by Susan Coolidge

READING-LITERATURE: Third Reader by Harriette Taylor Treadwell

The Fox as Herdsman

Once on a time there was a woman who went out to hire a herdsman, and she met a bear.

"Whither away, Goody?" said Bruin.

"Oh, I'm going out to hire a herdsman," answered the woman.

"Why not have me for a herdsman?" said Bruin.

"Well, why not," said the woman, "if you only know how to call the flock? Just let me hear you call."

"Ow, Ow!" growled the bear.

"No, no! I won't have you," said the woman as soon as she heard him say that, and off she went on her way.

When she had gone a bit farther she met a wolf.

"Whither away, Goody?" said the wolf.

"Oh," said she, "I'm going out to hire a herdsman."

"Why not have me for a herdsman?" said the wolf.

"Well, why not, if you can only call the flock? Let me hear you call," said she.

"Uh, Uh!" said the wolf.

"No, no!" said the woman, "you'll never do for me."

Well, after she had gone a while longer she met a fox.

"Whither away, Goody?" asked the fox.

"Oh, I'm just going out to hire a herdsman," said the woman.

"Why not have me for a herdsman?" asked the fox.

"Well, why not," said she, "if you only know how to call the flock? Let me hear you call."

"Dil-dal-holom!" sang out the fox in a fine clear voice.

"Yes, I'll have you for my herdsman," said the woman, and she set the fox to herd her flock.

The first day the fox was herdsman he ate up all the woman's goats; the next day he made an end of all her sheep; and the third day he ate up all her cows. So, when he came home at even, the woman asked what he had done with all her flocks.

"Oh!" said the fox, "their skulls are in the stream, and their bodies in the holt."

Now, the Goody stood and churned when the fox said this, but she thought she might as well step out and see after her flock. While she was away the fox crept into the churn and ate up the cream. When Goody came back and saw that she fell into a rage. She snatched up the little morsel of cream that was left and threw it at the fox as he ran off. He got a dab of it on the end of his tail, and that's the reason why the fox has a white tip to his brush.

— Norse Folk Tale