Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet

The Owl

When cats run home and light is come,

And dew is cold upon the ground,

And the far-off stream is dumb,

And the whirring sail goes round,

And the whirring sail goes round;

Alone and warming his five wits,

The white owl in the belfry sits.


When merry milkmaids click the latch,

And rarely smells the new-mown hay,

And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch

Twice or thrice his roundelay,

Twice or thrice his roundelay;

Alone and warming his five wits,

The white owl in the belfry sits.

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Week 19 The Pinch-Bug and His Prey from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain How England Was Saved from the Spaniards from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall The Book from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre Danger in the Castle from The Little Duke by Charlotte M. Yonge How Pitt Saved England from The Struggle for Sea Power by M. B. Synge Conal and Donal and Taig from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Across the Lake by Lisa M. Ripperton "Peace, Be Still" from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Henry the Fowler from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan A Chapter of Things To Do This Spring from The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp Lord Baltimore from Builders of Our Country: Book I by Gertrude van Duyn Southworth The Rich Man and the Bundle of Wood from The Tortoise and the Geese and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Barrows Dutton Loki the Betrayer from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum The Work in the Hive—The Manufacture of Wax from The Bee People by Margaret Warner Morley The Princess's King-Papa from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
Song on a May Morning by John Milton   Flower in the Crannied Wall by Alfred Lord Tennyson The Pet Lamb by William Wordsworth An Old Song of Fairies from Poems, Anonymous   Spring by Thomas Nashe
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Dog and His Reflection

A Dog, to whom the butcher had thrown a bone, was hurrying home with his prize as fast as he could go. As he crossed a narrow footbridge, he happened to look down and saw himself reflected in the quiet water as if in a mirror. But the greedy Dog thought he saw a real Dog carrying a bone much bigger than his own.


[Illustration]

If he had stopped to think he would have known better. But instead of thinking, he dropped his bone and sprang at the Dog in the river, only to find himself swimming for dear life to reach the shore. At last he managed to scramble out, and as he stood sadly thinking about the good bone he had lost, he realized what a stupid Dog he had been.

It is very foolish to be greedy.