Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Norse Lullaby

The sky is dark and the hills are white

As the storm-king speeds from the north to-night;

And this is the song the storm-king sings,

As over the world his cloak he flings:

"Sleep, sleep, little one, sleep";

He rustles his wings and gruffly sings:

"Sleep, little one, sleep."

On yonder mountain-side a vine

Clings at the foot of a mother pine;

The tree bends over the trembling thing,

And only the vine can hear her sing:

"Sleep, sleep, little one, sleep—

What shall you fear when I am here?

Sleep, little one, sleep."

The king may sing in his bitter flight,

The tree may croon to the vine to-night,

But the little snowflake at my breast

Liketh the song I sing the best—

Sleep, sleep, little one, sleep;

Weary thou art, a-next my heart,

Sleep, little one, sleep.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 26	The Cat and the Pain-Killer from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain	The Story of How the King Was Brought to His Death from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall	The Epeira's Bridge from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre	A Boon Granted from The Little Duke by Charlotte M. Yonge	The Trial of Warren Hastings from The Struggle for Sea Power by M. B. Synge	To Your Good Health from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Across the Lake by Lisa M. Ripperton	The Little Child in the Arms of Jesus from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Peter the Hermit Leads the First Crusade from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan	Woods Medicine from The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp	The Farm and the Shop from Four American Patriots by Alma Holman Burton	The Hen and the Falcon from The Tortoise and the Geese and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Barrows Dutton	The Sword Gram and the Dragon Fafnir from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum	Bombus, the Bumble-Bee from The Bee People by Margaret Warner Morley	Goblin Counsels from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
			A Day by Emily Dickinson		The Barefoot Boy from Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier		An Old Song of Fairies, Anonymous

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.