Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet

The Owl

When cats run home and light is come,

And dew is cold upon the ground,

And the far-off stream is dumb,

And the whirring sail goes round,

And the whirring sail goes round;

Alone and warming his five wits,

The white owl in the belfry sits.


When merry milkmaids click the latch,

And rarely smells the new-mown hay,

And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch

Twice or thrice his roundelay,

Twice or thrice his roundelay;

Alone and warming his five wits,

The white owl in the belfry sits.

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Week 14 The End from The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit The Story of Lady Jane Grey from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall Gold and Iron from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre How Otto Saw the Great Emperor from Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
Afterword from Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle 		The Story of the Great Mogul from The Struggle for Sea Power by M. B. Synge The Gods Know! from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Upon the Rock by Lisa M. Ripperton The Leper and the Man Let Down through the Roof from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
King Alfred the Great from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan Spring! Spring! Spring! from The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp The Dutch in America from Builders of Our Country: Book I by Gertrude van Duyn Southworth Why the Owl Is Not King of the Birds from Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt Thor and Loki in the Giants' City from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum How She Hears and Smells from The Bee People by Margaret Warner Morley What the Nurse Thought of It from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
The Princess Lets Well Alone from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
Jack in the Pulpit by Clara Smith A Child's Thought of God by Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Robin Is the One by Emily Dickinson     Tree Toads, Anonymous Sea Fever by John Masefield
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Rose and the Butterfly

A Butterfly once fell in love with a beautiful Rose. The Rose was not indifferent, for the Butterfly's wings were powdered in a charming pattern of gold and silver. And so, when he fluttered near and told how he loved her, she blushed rosily and said yes. After much pretty love-making and many whispered vows of constancy, the Butterfly took a tender leave of his sweetheart.


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The Rose and the Butterfly

But alas! It was a long time before he came back to her.

"Is this your constancy?" she exclaimed tearfully. "It is ages since you went away, and all the time, you have been carrying on with all sorts of flowers. I saw you kiss Miss Geranium, and you fluttered around Miss Mignonette until Honey Bee chased you away. I wish he had stung you!"

"Constancy!" laughed the Butterfly. "I had no sooner left you than I saw Zephyr kissing you. You carried on scandalously with Mr. Bumble Bee and you made eyes at every single Bug you could see. You can't expect any constancy from me!"

Do not expect constancy in others if you have none yourself.