First Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for November

Aiken Drum



King Cole



The Old Man in Leather



Ye Fairy Ship

The Cow

The friendly cow all red and white,

I love with all my heart:

She gives me cream with all her might,

To eat with apple-tart.


She wanders lowing here and there,

And yet she cannot stray,

All in the pleasant open air,

The pleasant light of day;


And blown by all the winds that pass

And wet with all the showers,

She walks among the meadow grass

And eats the meadow flowers.

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Week 44 Away to the South from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Kit Carson and the Bears from Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston The Fine Young Rat and the Trap from Among the Farmyard People by Clara Dillingham Pierson Titelli-Ture from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Up the Stairs by Lisa M. Ripperton The Roman Fleet from On the Shores of the Great Sea by M. B. Synge Judas Iscariot Day (Part 2 of 2) from The Mexican Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins How Moses Looked Upon the Promised Land from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
A Bonny Boat by Margaret Johnson 		Vespers by A. A. Milne
Peterkin Pout and Gregory Grout by Laura E. Richards 		Fairy Bread by Robert Louis Stevenson Good Night! by Victor Hugo The Fairies Have Never a Penny to Spend by Rose Fyleman Goodbye by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Ass and the Load of Salt

A Merchant, driving his Ass homeward from the seashore with a heavy load of salt, came to a river crossed by a shallow ford. They had crossed this river many times before without accident, but this time the Ass slipped and fell when halfway over. And when the Merchant at last got him to his feet, much of the salt had melted away. Delighted to find how much lighter his burden had become, the Ass finished the journey very gayly.

Next day the Merchant went for another load of salt. On the way home the Ass, remembering what had happened at the ford, purposely let himself fall into the water, and again got rid of most of his burden.

The angry Merchant immediately turned about and drove the Ass back to the seashore, where he loaded him with two great baskets of sponges. At the ford the Ass again tumbled over; but when he had scrambled to his feet, it was a very disconsolate Ass that dragged himself homeward under a load ten times heavier than before.

The same measures will not suit all circumstances.


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The Ass and the Load of Salt