Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet

From a Railway Carriage

Faster than fairies, faster than witches,

Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;

And charging along like troops in a battle

All through the meadows the horses and cattle:

All of the sights of the hill and the plain

Fly as thick as driving rain;

And ever again, in the wink of an eye,

Painted stations whistle by.


Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,

All by himself and gathering brambles;

Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;

And there is the green for stringing the daisies!

Here is a cart run away in the road

Lumping along with man and load;

And here is a mill and there is a river:

Each a glimpse and gone for ever!

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Week 34 Tom Takes Becky's Punishment from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain William the Deliverer from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall The Storm from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre The New Home at Kinkora from Our Little Celtic Cousin of Long Ago by Evaleen Stein The Travels of Baron Humboldt from The Struggle for Sea Power by M. B. Synge The Story of Merrymind from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Across the Lake by Lisa M. Ripperton Saint Augustine of Hippo from In God's Garden by Amy Steedman
Christopher Columbus from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan The Mother Murre from Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp The Declaration of Independence from Four American Patriots by Alma Holman Burton The Sparrows and the Snake from The Tortoise and the Geese and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Barrows Dutton The Death of Sigurd from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum The Inventors of Paper from Will o' the Wasps by Margaret Warner Morley Curdie's Guide from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
Nurse's Song by William Blake
To a Mouse by Robert Burns 		Have You Got a Brook in Your Little Heart by Emily Dickinson The Wonderful World by William Brighty Rands     Aug 21
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Fox and the Pheasants

One moonlight evening as Master Fox was taking his usual stroll in the woods, he saw a number of Pheasants perched quite out of his reach on a limb of a tall old tree. The sly Fox soon found a bright patch of moonlight, where the Pheasants could see him clearly; there he raised himself up on his hind legs, and began a wild dance. First he whirled 'round and 'round like a top, then he hopped up and down, cutting all sorts of strange capers. The Pheasants stared giddily. They hardly dared blink for fear of losing him out of their sight a single instant.


[Illustration]

Now the Fox made as if to climb a tree, now he fell over and lay still, playing dead, and the next instant he was hopping on all fours, his back in the air, and his bushy tail shaking so that it seemed to throw out silver sparks in the moonlight.

By this time the poor birds' heads were in a whirl. And when the Fox began his performance all over again, so dazed did they become, that they lost their hold on the limb, and fell down one by one to the Fox.

Too much attention to danger may cause us to fall victims to it.