Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet

The Splendor Falls

The splendor falls on castle walls
And snowy summits old in story:
The long light shakes across the lakes
And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes dying, dying, dying.

O hark, O hear! how thin and clear,
And thinner, clearer, farther going!
O sweet and far from cliff and scar
The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!
Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying,
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes dying, dying, dying.

O love they die in yon rich sky,
They faint on hill or field, or river:
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow forever and forever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 14	The End from The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit	The Story of Lady Jane Grey from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall	Gold and Iron from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre	How Otto Saw the Great Emperor from Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle Afterword from Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle	The Story of the Great Mogul from The Struggle for Sea Power by M. B. Synge	The Gods Know! from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Upon the Rock by Lisa M. Ripperton	The Leper and the Man Let Down through the Roof from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	King Alfred the Great from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan	Spring! Spring! Spring! from The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp	The Dutch in America from Builders of Our Country: Book I by Gertrude van Duyn Southworth	Why the Owl Is Not King of the Birds from Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt	Thor and Loki in the Giants' City from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum	How She Hears and Smells from The Bee People by Margaret Warner Morley	What the Nurse Thought of It from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald The Princess Lets Well Alone from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
	Jack in the Pulpit by Clara Smith	A Child's Thought of God by Elizabeth Barrett Browning	The Robin Is the One by Emily Dickinson			Tree Toads, Anonymous	Sea Fever by John Masefield

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Man and the Satyr

A long time ago a Man met a Satyr in the forest and succeeded in making friends with him. The two soon became the best of comrades, living together in the Man's hut. But one cold winter evening, as they were walking homeward, the Satyr saw the Man blow on his fingers.

"Why do you do that?" asked the Satyr.

"To warm my hands," the Man replied.

When they reached home the Man prepared two bowls of porridge. These he placed steaming hot on the table, and the comrades sat down very cheerfully to enjoy the meal. But much to the Satyr's surprise, the Man began to blow into his bowl of porridge.

The Man and the Satyr

"Why do you do that?" he asked.

"To cool my porridge," replied the Man.

The Satyr sprang hurriedly to his feet and made for the door.

"Goodby," he said, "I've seen enough. A fellow that blows hot and cold in the same breath cannot be friends with me!"

The man who talks for both sides is not to be trusted by either.