Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Sweet and Low

Sweet and low, sweet and low,

Wind of the western sea,

Low, low, breathe and blow,

Wind of the western sea!

Over the rolling waters go,

Come from the dying moon and blow,

Blow him again to me;

While my little one, while my pretty one sleeps.


Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,

Father will come to thee soon;

Rest, rest, on mother's breast,

Father will come to thee soon;

Father will come to his babe in the nest,

Silver sails all out of the west

Under the silver moon:

Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.

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Week 14 The End from The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit The Story of Lady Jane Grey from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall Gold and Iron from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre How Otto Saw the Great Emperor from Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
Afterword from Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle 		The Story of the Great Mogul from The Struggle for Sea Power by M. B. Synge The Gods Know! from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Upon the Rock by Lisa M. Ripperton The Leper and the Man Let Down through the Roof from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
King Alfred the Great from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan Spring! Spring! Spring! from The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp The Dutch in America from Builders of Our Country: Book I by Gertrude van Duyn Southworth Why the Owl Is Not King of the Birds from Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt Thor and Loki in the Giants' City from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum How She Hears and Smells from The Bee People by Margaret Warner Morley What the Nurse Thought of It from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
The Princess Lets Well Alone from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
Jack in the Pulpit by Clara Smith A Child's Thought of God by Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Robin Is the One by Emily Dickinson     Tree Toads, Anonymous Sea Fever by John Masefield
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Flies and the Honey

A jar of honey was upset and the sticky sweetness flowed out on the table. The sweet smell of the honey soon brought a large number of Flies buzzing around. They did not wait for an invitation. No, indeed; they settled right down, feet and all, to gorge themselves. The Flies were quickly smeared from head to foot with honey. Their wings stuck together. They could not pull their feet out of the sticky mass. And so they died, giving their lives for the sake of a taste of sweetness.

Be not greedy for a little passing pleasure. It may destroy you.