Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Hunting Song

Waken, lords and ladies gay,
On the mountain dawns the day, 
All the jolly chase is here,
With hawk, and horse, and hunting spear!
Hounds are in their couples yelling, 
Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling, 
Merrily, merrily, mingle they,
"Waken, lords and ladies gay."

Waken, lords and ladies gay,
The mist has left the mountain gray, 
Springlets in the dawn are steaming, 
Diamonds on the brake are gleaming; 
And foresters have busy been,
To track the buck in thicket green; 
Now we come to chant our lay, 
"Waken, lords and ladies gay."

Waken, lords and ladies gay, 
To the greenwood haste away; 
We can show you where he lies, 
Fleet of foot and tall of size;
We can show the marks he made, 
When 'gainst the oak his antlers fray'd;
You shall see him brought to bay, 
"Waken, lords and ladies gay."

Louder, louder chant the lay, 
Waken, lords and ladies gay! 
Tell them youth, and mirth, and glee 
Run a course as well as we;
Time, stern huntsman! who can balk, 
Stanch as hound, and fleet as hawk? 
Think of this, and rise with day, 
Gentle lords and ladies gay.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 38	Splendid Days and Fearsome Nights from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain	The Story of the Earl of Mar's Hunting Party from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall	Franklin and De Romas from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre	Ferdiad and the Dane Prisoner from Our Little Celtic Cousin of Long Ago by Evaleen Stein	Napoleon, Emperor of the French from The Struggle for Sea Power by M. B. Synge	The Nightingale from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Across the Lake by Lisa M. Ripperton	The Last Visits of Jesus to the Temple from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	The Stories of William Tell and Arnold Von Winkelried from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan	The "Cony" from Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp	The Orphan Boy of Nevis from Four American Patriots by Alma Holman Burton	The King, the Falcon, and the Drinking-Cup from The Tortoise and the Geese and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Barrows Dutton	The Story of Gessler and Stauffacher from Stories of William Tell Told to the Children by H. E. Marshall	The Nest Is Finished from Will o' the Wasps by Margaret Warner Morley	How Valoroso Got the Crown and Giglio Went Without from The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray Who the Fairy Blackstick Was from The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray
		September by Helen Hunt Jackson	The Railway Train by Emily Dickinson	The Old Oaken Bucket by Samuel Woodworth	The Sandpiper from Poems by Celia Thaxter	The Vulture by Hilaire Belloc	Sep 18

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Cat and the Fox

Once a Cat and a Fox were traveling together. As they went along, picking up provisions on the way—a stray mouse here, a fat chicken there—they began an argument to while away the time between bites. And, as usually happens when comrades argue, the talk began to get personal. "You think you are extremely clever, don't you?" said the Fox. "Do you pretend to know more than I? Why, I know a whole sackful of tricks!"

"Well," retorted the Cat, "I admit I know one trick only, but that one, let me tell you, is worth a thousand of yours!"

Just then, close by, they heard a hunter's horn and the yelping of a pack of hounds. In an instant the Cat was up a tree, hiding among the leaves.

"This is my trick," he called to the Fox. "Now let me see what yours are worth."

But the Fox had so many plans for escape he could not decide which one to try first. He dodged here and there with the hounds at his heels. He doubled on his tracks, he ran at top speed, he entered a dozen burrows,—but all in vain. The hounds caught him, and soon put an end to the boaster and all his tricks.

Common sense is always worth more than cunning.