Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet

The Snake

A narrow fellow in the grass

Occasionally rides;

You may have met him,—did you not,

His notice sudden is.


The grass divides as with a comb,

A spotted shaft is seen;

And then it closes at your feet

And opens further on.


He likes a boggy acre

A floor too cool for corn

Yet when a child, and barefoot,

I more than once, at morn,


Have passed, I thought, a whip-lash

Unbraiding in the sun,—

When, stooping to secure it,

It wrinkled, and was gone.


Several of nature's people

I know, and they know me;

I feel for them a transport

Of cordiality;


But never met this fellow,

Attended or alone,

Without a tighter breathing,

And zero at the bone.

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Week 11 The Hound in the Red Jersey from The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit How the King Became the Defender of the Faith from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall The Kettle from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre How Otto Was Saved from Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle Anson's Voyage round the World from The Awakening of Europe by M. B. Synge Helpless No More from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Upon the Rock by Lisa M. Ripperton
A People To Serve from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Upon the Rock by Lisa M. Ripperton 		Saint Patrick (Part 2 of 2) from Our Island Saints by Amy Steedman
The Story of Beowulf from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan A Breach in the Bank from Winter by Dallas Lore Sharp Roger Williams from Builders of Our Country: Book I by Gertrude van Duyn Southworth The King's White Elephant from Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt Odin Faces an Evil Man from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum Ambrosia and Nectar from The Bee People by Margaret Warner Morley The Last Wish from Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
Hymn to Diana by Ben Jonson The Daffodils by William Wordsworth Break, Break, Break by Alfred Lord Tennyson Ready for Duty by Anna B. Warner Little by Little from Poems, Anonymous   Song of the Chattahoochee by Sydney Lanier
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Cock and the Fox

A Fox was caught in a trap one fine morning, because he had got too near the Farmer's hen house. No doubt he was hungry, but that was not an excuse for stealing. A Cock, rising early, discovered what had happened. He knew the Fox could not get at him, so he went a little closer to get a good look at his enemy.

The Fox saw a slender chance of escape.

"Dear friend," he said, "I was just on my way to visit a sick relative, when I stumbled into this string and got all tangled up. But please do not tell anybody about it. I dislike causing sorrow to anybody, and I am sure I can soon gnaw this string to pieces."

But the Cock was not to be so easily fooled. He soon roused the whole hen yard, and when the Farmer came running out, that was the end of Mr. Fox.

The wicked deserve no aid.