Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Norse Lullaby

The sky is dark and the hills are white

As the storm-king speeds from the north to-night;

And this is the song the storm-king sings,

As over the world his cloak he flings:

"Sleep, sleep, little one, sleep";

He rustles his wings and gruffly sings:

"Sleep, little one, sleep."

On yonder mountain-side a vine

Clings at the foot of a mother pine;

The tree bends over the trembling thing,

And only the vine can hear her sing:

"Sleep, sleep, little one, sleep—

What shall you fear when I am here?

Sleep, little one, sleep."

The king may sing in his bitter flight,

The tree may croon to the vine to-night,

But the little snowflake at my breast

Liketh the song I sing the best—

Sleep, sleep, little one, sleep;

Weary thou art, a-next my heart,

Sleep, little one, sleep.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 12	What Bobbie Brought Home from The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit	Henry VIII—The Story of the King's Six Wives from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall	The Metals from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre	A Ride for Life from Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle	Maria Theresa from The Awakening of Europe by M. B. Synge	The Beginning of the Armadillos from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Upon the Rock by Lisa M. Ripperton	The Story of a Boy in Capernaum and a Riot from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Saint Patrick from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan	A Chapter of Things To Hear This Winter from Winter by Dallas Lore Sharp	King Philip's War from Builders of Our Country: Book I by Gertrude van Duyn Southworth	Grannie's Blackie from Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt	Odin Wins for Men the Magic Mead from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum	Miss Apis's Legs from The Bee People by Margaret Warner Morley	Why the Princess Has a Story about Her from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald The Princess Loses Herself from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
	The Tree by Bjornstjerne Bjornson	Pippa's Song by Robert Browning	Perhaps You'd Like To Buy a Flower by Emily Dickinson		Written in March from Poems by William Wordsworth	My Fairy by Lewis Carroll	The Daffodils by William Wordsworth

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Fox and the Monkey

At a great meeting of the Animals, who had gathered to elect a new ruler, the Monkey was asked to dance. This he did so well, with a thousand funny capers and grimaces, that the Animals were carried entirely off their feet with enthusiasm, and then and there, elected him their king.

The Fox did not vote for the Monkey and was much disgusted with the Animals for electing so unworthy a ruler.

One day he found a trap with a bit of meat in it. Hurrying to King Monkey, he told him he had found a rich treasure, which he had not touched because it belonged by right to his majesty the Monkey.

The greedy Monkey followed the Fox to the trap. As soon as he saw the meat he grasped eagerly for it, only to find himself held fast in the trap. The Fox stood off and laughed.

"You pretend to be our king," he said, "and cannot even take care of yourself!"

Shortly after that, another election among the Animals was held.

The true leader proves himself by his qualities.