Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Sweet and Low

Sweet and low, sweet and low,

Wind of the western sea,

Low, low, breathe and blow,

Wind of the western sea!

Over the rolling waters go,

Come from the dying moon and blow,

Blow him again to me;

While my little one, while my pretty one sleeps.


Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,

Father will come to thee soon;

Rest, rest, on mother's breast,

Father will come to thee soon;

Father will come to his babe in the nest,

Silver sails all out of the west

Under the silver moon:

Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.

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Week 11 The Hound in the Red Jersey from The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit How the King Became the Defender of the Faith from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall The Kettle from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre How Otto Was Saved from Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle Anson's Voyage round the World from The Awakening of Europe by M. B. Synge Helpless No More from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Upon the Rock by Lisa M. Ripperton
A People To Serve from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Upon the Rock by Lisa M. Ripperton 		Saint Patrick (Part 2 of 2) from Our Island Saints by Amy Steedman
The Story of Beowulf from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan A Breach in the Bank from Winter by Dallas Lore Sharp Roger Williams from Builders of Our Country: Book I by Gertrude van Duyn Southworth The King's White Elephant from Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt Odin Faces an Evil Man from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum Ambrosia and Nectar from The Bee People by Margaret Warner Morley The Last Wish from Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
Hymn to Diana by Ben Jonson The Daffodils by William Wordsworth Break, Break, Break by Alfred Lord Tennyson Ready for Duty by Anna B. Warner Little by Little from Poems, Anonymous   Song of the Chattahoochee by Sydney Lanier
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Ass and His Shadow

A Traveler had hired an Ass to carry him to a distant part of the country. The owner of the Ass went with the Traveler, walking beside him to drive the Ass and point out the way.

The road led across a treeless plain where the Sun beat down fiercely. So intense did the heat become, that the Traveler at last decided to stop for a rest, and as there was no other shade to be found, the Traveler sat down in the shadow of the Ass.

Now the heat had affected the Driver as much as it had the Traveler, and even more, for he had been walking. Wishing also to rest in the shade cast by the Ass, he began to quarrel with the Traveler, saying he had hired the Ass and not the shadow it cast.


[Illustration]

The two soon came to blows, and while they were fighting, the Ass took to its heels.

In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.