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 3 The Old Gentleman from The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit Henry VI of Windsor—Red Rose and White from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall The Building of the City from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre How the Baron Came Home Shorn from Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle The Siege of Vienna by the Turks from The Awakening of Europe by M. B. Synge The Lords of the White and Grey Castles from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Upon the Rock by Lisa M. Ripperton The Manger of Bethlehem from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Genseric the Vandal from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan White-Foot from Winter by Dallas Lore Sharp Christopher Columbus from Builders of Our Country: Book I by Gertrude van Duyn Southworth The Merchant of Seri from Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt Iduna and Her Apples: How Loki Put the Gods in Danger from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum Familiar Moths from Insect Life by Arabella B. Buckley Being Wanted from Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
He Prayeth Best by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Star-Talk by Robert Graves Hope by Emily Dickinson The Pilgrim by John Bunyan The Better Land from Poems by Felicia Dorothea Hemans The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky by Vachel Lindsay The Snow by Emily Dickinson
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Fisherman and the Little Fish

A poor Fisherman, who lived on the fish he caught, had bad luck one day and caught nothing but very small fry. The Fisherman was about to put it in his basket when the little Fish said:

"Please spare me, Mr. Fisherman! I am so small it is not worth while to carry me home. When I am bigger, I shall make you a much better meal."


[Illustration]

But the Fisherman quickly put the fish into his basket. "How foolish I should be," he said, "to throw you back. However small you may be, you are better than nothing at all."

A small gain is worth more than a large promise.