Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet

From a Railway Carriage

Faster than fairies, faster than witches,

Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;

And charging along like troops in a battle

All through the meadows the horses and cattle:

All of the sights of the hill and the plain

Fly as thick as driving rain;

And ever again, in the wink of an eye,

Painted stations whistle by.


Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,

All by himself and gathering brambles;

Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;

And there is the green for stringing the daisies!

Here is a cart run away in the road

Lumping along with man and load;

And here is a mill and there is a river:

Each a glimpse and gone for ever!

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Week 1 The Beginning of Things from The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit Henry V of Monmouth—The Battle of Agincourt from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall The Six from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre Foreword from Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
The Dragon's House from Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle 		William's Invitation from The Awakening of Europe by M. B. Synge How the Whale Got His Throat from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Upon the Rock by Lisa M. Ripperton Ezra's Great Bible Class in Jerusalem from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Alaric the Visigoth from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan Hunting the Snow from Winter by Dallas Lore Sharp Leif the Lucky from Builders of Our Country: Book I by Gertrude van Duyn Southworth The Monkey and the Crocodile from Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt Far Away and Long Ago from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum What Is an Insect? from Insect Life by Arabella B. Buckley Beautiful as the Day from Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind by William Shakespeare The Night Wind by Eugene Field The New Year by Alfred Lord Tennyson Good Hours by Robert Frost Excerpt from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" from Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Father William by Lewis Carroll Star-Talk by Robert Graves
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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.


[Illustration]

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.