Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for July

A Diamond or a Coal?

A diamond or a coal?
A diamond, if you please:
Who cares about a clumsy coal
Beneath the summer trees?

A diamond or a coal?
A coal, sir, if you please:
One comes to care about the coal
What time the waters freeze.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 50	"Birds of a Feather Flock Together" from The Birds' Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin	Picciola from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	Queer Feet and a Queerer Bill from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	Hans Turns Sailor from The Christmas Porringer by Evaleen Stein	Gabriel Interviews the Abbot from Gabriel and the Hour Book by Evaleen Stein	The Hour Book from Gabriel and the Hour Book by Evaleen Stein	The Count's Tax from Gabriel and the Hour Book by Evaleen Stein
	Captain Smith's Departure from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis The "Starving Time" from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	Eggs on a Branch (Part 2 of 3) from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	Robber Hans and the Porringer from The Christmas Porringer by Evaleen Stein	The Stranger Child from Good Stories for Great Holidays by Frances Jenkins Olcott	Why Bruin Has a Stumpy Tail from The Pearl Story Book by Eleanor L. Skinner	The Tailor of Gloucester from The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter	The Race Story from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	Here We Come A-Whistling, Anonymous	The Christmas Child by George MacDonald	Snow Song by Frank Dempster Sherman	Cradle Hymn by Martin Luther	Silver Bells by Hamish Hendry	The Waits by Margaret Deland	A Christmas Carol by G. K. Chesterton

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Fox and the Goat

A Fox fell into a well, and though it was not very deep, he found that he could not get out again. After he had been in the well a long time, a thirsty Goat came by. The Goat thought the Fox had gone down to drink, and so he asked if the water was good.

"The finest in the whole country," said the crafty Fox, "jump in and try it. There is more than enough for both of us."

The thirsty Goat immediately jumped in and began to drink. The Fox just as quickly jumped on the Goat's back and leaped from the tip of the Goat's horns out of the well.

The foolish Goat now saw what a plight he had got into, and begged the Fox to help him out. But the Fox was already on his way to the woods.

"If you had as much sense as you have beard, old fellow," he said as he ran, "you would have been more cautious about finding a way to get out again before you jumped in."

Look before you leap.