Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet

A Boy's Song

Where the pools are bright and deep,

Where the gray trout lies asleep,

Up the river and o'er the lea,

That's the way for Billy and me.

Where the blackbird sings the latest,

Where the hawthorn blooms the sweetest,

Where the nestlings chirp and flee,

That's the way for Billy and me.

Where the mowers mow the cleanest,

Where the hay lies thick and greenest,

There to trace the homeward bee,

That's the way for Billy and me.

Where the hazel bank is steepest,

Where the shadow falls the deepest,

Where the clustering nuts fall free.

That's the way for Billy and me.

Why the boys should drive away,

Little sweet maidens from the play,

Or love to banter and fight so well,

That's the thing I never could tell.

But this I know, I love to play,

Through the meadow, among the hay;

Up the water and o'er the lea,

That's the way for Billy and me.

	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 Fox and the Monkey

At a great meeting of the Animals, who had gathered to elect a new ruler, the Monkey was asked to dance. This he did so well, with a thousand funny capers and grimaces, that the Animals were carried entirely off their feet with enthusiasm, and then and there, elected him their king.

The Fox did not vote for the Monkey and was much disgusted with the Animals for electing so unworthy a ruler.

One day he found a trap with a bit of meat in it. Hurrying to King Monkey, he told him he had found a rich treasure, which he had not touched because it belonged by right to his majesty the Monkey.

The greedy Monkey followed the Fox to the trap. As soon as he saw the meat he grasped eagerly for it, only to find himself held fast in the trap. The Fox stood off and laughed.

"You pretend to be our king," he said, "and cannot even take care of yourself!"

Shortly after that, another election among the Animals was held.

The true leader proves himself by his qualities.