Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Hope

Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune without the words,

And never stops at all,


And sweetest in the gale is heard;

And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little bird

That kept so many warm.


I've heard it in the chillest land,

And on the strangest sea;

Yet, never, in extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.

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Week 13 The Hound's Grandfather from The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit Edward VI—The Story of a Boy King from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall Metal Plating from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre How Baron Conrad Held the Bridge from Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle The Story of Scotland from The Awakening of Europe by M. B. Synge The Story of Childe Charity from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Upon the Rock by Lisa M. Ripperton A Net Full of Fishes from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
The Legend of King Arthur from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan The Last Day of Winter from Winter by Dallas Lore Sharp Henry Hudson from Builders of Our Country: Book I by Gertrude van Duyn Southworth The Crab and the Crane from Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt Odin Tells to Vidar, His Silent Son, the Secret of His Doings from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum Her Wings from The Bee People by Margaret Warner Morley The Princess and—We Shall See Who from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
    To March by Emily Dickinson A Fairy Tale by Helen Gray Cone The Wreck of the Hesperus from Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow   Mar 27
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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.