Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet

The Brook

I chatter, chatter, as I flow

To join the brimming river;

For men may come and men may go,

But I go on forever.

I wind about, and in and out,

With here a blossom sailing,

And here and there a lusty trout,

And here and there a grayling.

I steal by lawns and grassy plots,

I slide by hazel covers;

I move the sweet forget-me-nots

That grow for happy lovers.

I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,

Among my skimming swallows;

I make the netted sunbeams dance

Against my sandy shallows.

I murmur under moon and stars

In brambly wildernesses;

I linger by my shingly bars;

I loiter round my cresses.

And out again I curve and flow

To join the brimming river;

For men may come and men may go,

But I go on forever.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 18	Showing Off in Sunday-School from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain	Elizabeth—The Story of a Most Unhappy Queen from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall	Paper from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre	A Comrade from The Little Duke by Charlotte M. Yonge	George Washington, Soldier and Patriot from The Struggle for Sea Power by M. B. Synge	Billy Beg and the Bull from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Across the Lake by Lisa M. Ripperton	Some Stories Jesus Told by the Sea from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Leif Ericsson, the Discoverer from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan	If You Had Wings from The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp	La Salle from Builders of Our Country: Book I by Gertrude van Duyn Southworth	The Poor Man and the Flask of Oil from The Tortoise and the Geese and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Barrows Dutton	Foreboding in Asgard from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum	The Queen from The Bee People by Margaret Warner Morley	The Hall of the Goblin Palace from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
		The Cloud by Percy Bysshe Shelley	A Word by Emily Dickinson			The Pobble Who Has No Toes by Edward Lear	Sister, Awake!, Anonymous

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Eagle and the Kite

An Eagle sat high in the branches of a great Oak. She seemed very sad and drooping for an Eagle. A Kite saw her.

"Why do you look so woe-begone?" asked the Kite.

"I want to get married," replied the Eagle, "and I can't find a mate who can provide for me as I should like."

"Take me," said the Kite; "I am very strong, stronger even than you!"

"Do you really think you can provide for me?" asked the Eagle eagerly.

"Why, of course," replied the Kite. "That would be a very simple matter. I am so strong I can carry away an Ostrich in my talons as if it were a feather!" The Eagle accepted the Kite immediately. But after the wedding, when the Kite flew away to find something to eat for his bride, all he had when he returned, was a tiny Mouse.

"Is that the Ostrich you talked about?" said the Eagle in disgust. "To win you I would have said and promised anything," replied the Kite.

Everything is fair in love.