Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet




Hunting Song

Waken, lords and ladies gay,

On the mountain dawns the day,

All the jolly chase is here,

With hawk, and horse, and hunting spear!

Hounds are in their couples yelling,

Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling,

Merrily, merrily, mingle they,

"Waken, lords and ladies gay."


Waken, lords and ladies gay,

The mist has left the mountain gray,

Springlets in the dawn are steaming,

Diamonds on the brake are gleaming;

And foresters have busy been,

To track the buck in thicket green;

Now we come to chant our lay,

"Waken, lords and ladies gay."


Waken, lords and ladies gay,

To the greenwood haste away;

We can show you where he lies,

Fleet of foot and tall of size;

We can show the marks he made,

When 'gainst the oak his antlers fray'd;

You shall see him brought to bay,

"Waken, lords and ladies gay."


Louder, louder chant the lay,

Waken, lords and ladies gay!

Tell them youth, and mirth, and glee

Run a course as well as we;

Time, stern huntsman! who can balk,

Stanch as hound, and fleet as hawk?

Think of this, and rise with day,

Gentle lords and ladies gay.


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Week 11 The Hound in the Red Jersey from The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit How the King Became the Defender of the Faith from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall The Kettle from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre How Otto Was Saved from Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle Anson's Voyage round the World from The Awakening of Europe by M. B. Synge Helpless No More from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Upon the Rock by Lisa M. Ripperton
A People To Serve from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Upon the Rock by Lisa M. Ripperton
Saint Patrick (Part 2 of 2) from Our Island Saints by Amy Steedman
The Story of Beowulf from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan A Breach in the Bank from Winter by Dallas Lore Sharp Roger Williams from Builders of Our Country: Book I by Gertrude van Duyn Southworth The King's White Elephant from Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt Odin Faces an Evil Man from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum Ambrosia and Nectar from The Bee People by Margaret Warner Morley The Last Wish from Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
Hymn to Diana by Ben Jonson The Daffodils by William Wordsworth Break, Break, Break by Alfred Lord Tennyson Ready for Duty by Anna B. Warner Little by Little from Poems, Anonymous   Song of the Chattahoochee by Sydney Lanier
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Dog and His Reflection

A Dog, to whom the butcher had thrown a bone, was hurrying home with his prize as fast as he could go. As he crossed a narrow footbridge, he happened to look down and saw himself reflected in the quiet water as if in a mirror. But the greedy Dog thought he saw a real Dog carrying a bone much bigger than his own.


[Illustration]

If he had stopped to think he would have known better. But instead of thinking, he dropped his bone and sprang at the Dog in the river, only to find himself swimming for dear life to reach the shore. At last he managed to scramble out, and as he stood sadly thinking about the good bone he had lost, he realized what a stupid Dog he had been.

It is very foolish to be greedy.