Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet

The Splendor Falls

The splendor falls on castle walls
And snowy summits old in story:
The long light shakes across the lakes
And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes dying, dying, dying.

O hark, O hear! how thin and clear,
And thinner, clearer, farther going!
O sweet and far from cliff and scar
The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!
Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying,
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes dying, dying, dying.

O love they die in yon rich sky,
They faint on hill or field, or river:
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow forever and forever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 38	Splendid Days and Fearsome Nights from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain	The Story of the Earl of Mar's Hunting Party from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall	Franklin and De Romas from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre	Ferdiad and the Dane Prisoner from Our Little Celtic Cousin of Long Ago by Evaleen Stein	Napoleon, Emperor of the French from The Struggle for Sea Power by M. B. Synge	The Nightingale from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Across the Lake by Lisa M. Ripperton	The Last Visits of Jesus to the Temple from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	The Stories of William Tell and Arnold Von Winkelried from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan	The "Cony" from Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp	The Orphan Boy of Nevis from Four American Patriots by Alma Holman Burton	The King, the Falcon, and the Drinking-Cup from The Tortoise and the Geese and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Barrows Dutton	The Story of Gessler and Stauffacher from Stories of William Tell Told to the Children by H. E. Marshall	The Nest Is Finished from Will o' the Wasps by Margaret Warner Morley	How Valoroso Got the Crown and Giglio Went Without from The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray Who the Fairy Blackstick Was from The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray
		September by Helen Hunt Jackson	The Railway Train by Emily Dickinson	The Old Oaken Bucket by Samuel Woodworth	The Sandpiper from Poems by Celia Thaxter	The Vulture by Hilaire Belloc	Sep 18

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Miller, His Son, and the Ass

One day, a long time ago, an old Miller and his Son were on their way to market with an Ass which they hoped to sell. They drove him very slowly, for they thought they would have a better chance to sell him if they kept him in good condition. As they walked along the highway some travelers laughed loudly at them.

"What foolishness," cried one, "to walk when they might as well ride. The most stupid of the three is not the one you would expect it to be."

The Miller did not like to be laughed at, so he told his son to climb up and ride.

They had gone a little farther along the road, when three merchants passed by.

"Oho, what have we here?" they cried. "Respect old age, young man! Get down, and let the old man ride."

Though the Miller was not tired, he made the boy get down and climbed up himself to ride, just to please the Merchants.

At the next turnstile they overtook some women carrying market baskets loaded with vegetables and other things to sell.

"Look at the old fool," exclaimed one of them. "Perched on the Ass, while that poor boy has to walk."

The Miller felt a bit vexed, but to be agreeable he told the Boy to climb up behind him.

They had no sooner started out again than a loud shout went up from another company of people on the road.

"What a crime," cried one, "to load up a poor dumb beast like that! They look more able to carry the poor creature, than he to carry them."

"They must be on their way to sell the poor thing's hide," said another.

The Miller and his Son quickly scrambled down, and a short time later, the market place was thrown into an uproar as the two came along carrying the Donkey slung from a pole. A great crowd of people ran out to get a closer look at the strange sight.

The Ass did not dislike being carried, but so many people came up to point at him and laugh and shout, that he began to kick and bray, and then, just as they were crossing a bridge, the ropes that held him gave way, and down he tumbled into the river.

The poor Miller now set out sadly for home. By trying to please everybody, he had pleased nobody, and lost his Ass besides.

If you try to please all, you please none.