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 39	Seeking the Buried Treasure from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain	George II—The Story of Bonnie Prince Charlie from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall	Thunder and the Lightning-Rod from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre	The Book of Kells from Our Little Celtic Cousin of Long Ago by Evaleen Stein	The Battle of Trafalgar from The Struggle for Sea Power by M. B. Synge	Manis the Miller from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Across the Lake by Lisa M. Ripperton	The Parables on the Mount of Olives from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Edward the Black Prince from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan	The Clock Strikes One from The Fall of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp	The Voyage from Four American Patriots by Alma Holman Burton "The Little West Indian" from Four American Patriots by Alma Holman Burton	The Hare, the Fox, and the Wolf from The Tortoise and the Geese and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Barrows Dutton	How the Cap of Austria Was Set Up from Stories of William Tell Told to the Children by H. E. Marshall	Concerning Stings from Will o' the Wasps by Margaret Warner Morley	How Blackstick Was Not Asked to the Christening from The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray How Princess Angelica Took a Little Maid from The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray
	My Lost Youth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	The Song of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats	The Poet's Song by Alfred Lord Tennyson		Casabianca from Poems by Felicia Dorothea Hemans		Sep 25

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.