Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet

The Brook

I chatter, chatter, as I flow

To join the brimming river;

For men may come and men may go,

But I go on forever.

I wind about, and in and out,

With here a blossom sailing,

And here and there a lusty trout,

And here and there a grayling.

I steal by lawns and grassy plots,

I slide by hazel covers;

I move the sweet forget-me-nots

That grow for happy lovers.

I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,

Among my skimming swallows;

I make the netted sunbeams dance

Against my sandy shallows.

I murmur under moon and stars

In brambly wildernesses;

I linger by my shingly bars;

I loiter round my cresses.

And out again I curve and flow

To join the brimming river;

For men may come and men may go,

But I go on forever.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 35	Eloquence—and the Master's Gilded Dome from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain	William III and Mary II—Brave Londonderry from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall	Electricity from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre	How Cuculain Got His Name from Our Little Celtic Cousin of Long Ago by Evaleen Stein	The Beginning of the Struggle from The Struggle for Sea Power by M. B. Synge	Woman's Wit from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Across the Lake by Lisa M. Ripperton	The Poor Rich Man and the Rich Poor Man from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Vasco da Gama from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan	Mother Carey's Chickens from Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp	The First Governor of the State of Virginia from Four American Patriots by Alma Holman Burton The Close of the War from Four American Patriots by Alma Holman Burton	The Ape and the Boar from The Tortoise and the Geese and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Barrows Dutton	The Twilight of the Gods from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum	Baby Vespa from Will o' the Wasps by Margaret Warner Morley	Mason-Work from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald The King and the Kiss from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
	A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea by Allan Cunningham	From a Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson	The Splendor Falls by Alfred Lord Tennyson		The Solitary Reaper from Poems by William Wordsworth		Off the Ground by Walter de la Mare

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

Two Travelers and a Bear

Two Men were traveling in company through a forest, when, all at once, a huge Bear crashed out of the brush near them.

One of the Men, thinking of his own safety, climbed a tree.

The other, unable to fight the savage beast alone, threw himself on the ground and lay still, as if he were dead. He had heard that a Bear will not touch a dead body.

It must have been true, for the Bear snuffed at the Man's head awhile, and then, seeming to be satisfied that he was dead, walked away.

The Man in the tree climbed down.

"It looked just as if that Bear whispered in your ear," he said. "What did he tell you?"

"He said," answered the other, "that it was not at all wise to keep company with a fellow who would desert his friend in a moment of danger."

Misfortune is the test of true friendship.