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 29 Tom's Stealthy Visit Home from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain How Death Walked in the Streets of London from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall Venomous Insects from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre Ferdiad and Conn See the Sights from Our Little Celtic Cousin of Long Ago by Evaleen Stein The Flight to Varennes from The Struggle for Sea Power by M. B. Synge Little Claus and Big Claus from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Across the Lake by Lisa M. Ripperton The Man with Clay on His Face from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Roger Bacon from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan A Chapter of the Things To See This Summer from Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp The Parsons' Cause from Four American Patriots by Alma Holman Burton The Tyrant Who Became a Just Ruler from The Tortoise and the Geese and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Barrows Dutton The Story of Sigmund and Sinfiotli from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum More Nests from Will o' the Wasps by Margaret Warner Morley The Old Lady and Curdie from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
Ivry by Thomas B. Macaulay The Tiger by William Blake The Sea by Emily Dickinson Katydid by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sweet Peas from Poems by John Keats   Jul 17
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox

A Lion, an Ass, and a Fox were hunting in company, and caught a large quantity of game. The Ass was asked to divide the spoil. This he did very fairly, giving each an equal share.

The Fox was well satisfied, but the Lion flew into a great rage over it, and with one stroke of his huge paw, he added the Ass to the pile of slain.

Then he turned to the Fox.

"You divide it," he roared angrily.

The Fox wasted no time in talking. He quickly piled all the game into one great heap. From this he took a very small portion for himself, such undesirable bits as the horns and hoofs of a mountain goat, and the end of an ox tail.


[Illustration]

The Lion now recovered his good humor entirely.

"Who taught you to divide so fairly?" he asked pleasantly.

"I learned a lesson from the Ass," replied the Fox, carefully edging away.

Learn from the misfortunes of others.