Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet

From a Railway Carriage

Faster than fairies, faster than witches,

Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;

And charging along like troops in a battle

All through the meadows the horses and cattle:

All of the sights of the hill and the plain

Fly as thick as driving rain;

And ever again, in the wink of an eye,

Painted stations whistle by.


Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,

All by himself and gathering brambles;

Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;

And there is the green for stringing the daisies!

Here is a cart run away in the road

Lumping along with man and load;

And here is a mill and there is a river:

Each a glimpse and gone for ever!

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Week 20 Tom Meets Becky from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Elizabeth—The Story of Sir Walter Raleigh from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall Printing from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre At the French Court from The Little Duke by Charlotte M. Yonge The Fall of Quebec from The Struggle for Sea Power by M. B. Synge The Story of Fairyfoot from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Across the Lake by Lisa M. Ripperton Saint Augustine of Canterbury from In God's Garden by Amy Steedman
Hugh Capet from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan The Palace in the Pig-Pen from The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp William Penn from Builders of Our Country: Book I by Gertrude van Duyn Southworth The Scorpion and the Tortoise from The Tortoise and the Geese and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Barrows Dutton Loki against the Æsir from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum Honey-Comb from The Bee People by Margaret Warner Morley The Old Lady's Bedroom from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
    If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking by Emily Dickinson Under the Greenwood Tree by William Shakespeare The Ghosts of the Buffaloes from Poems by Vachel Lindsay   May 15
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

Jupiter and the Monkey

There was once a baby show among the Animals in the forest. Jupiter provided the prize. Of course all the proud mammas from far and near brought their babies. But none got there earlier than Mother Monkey. Proudly she presented her baby among the other contestants.

As you can imagine, there was quite a laugh when the Animals saw the ugly flat-nosed, hairless, pop-eyed little creature.

"Laugh if you will," said the Mother Monkey. "Though Jupiter may not give him the prize, I know that he is the prettiest, the sweetest, the dearest darling in the world."

Mother love is blind.