Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet

The Owl

When cats run home and light is come,
And dew is cold upon the ground,
And the far-off stream is dumb,
And the whirring sail goes round,
And the whirring sail goes round;
Alone and warming his five wits,
The white owl in the belfry sits.

When merry milkmaids click the latch,
And rarely smells the new-mown hay,
And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch
Twice or thrice his roundelay,
Twice or thrice his roundelay;
Alone and warming his five wits,
The white owl in the belfry sits.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 31	Pirates at Their Own Funeral from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain	The Fiery Cross from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall	The Viper and the Scorpion from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre	The Story of the DeDanaans from Our Little Celtic Cousin of Long Ago by Evaleen Stein	Napoleon Bonaparte from The Struggle for Sea Power by M. B. Synge	The Little Cabin Boy from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Across the Lake by Lisa M. Ripperton	Lazarus Raised to Life from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Francesco Petrarch from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan	From T Wharf to Franklin Field from Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp	The Continental Congress from Four American Patriots by Alma Holman Burton	The Fox and the Piece of Meat from The Tortoise and the Geese and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Barrows Dutton	Brynhild in the House of Flame from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum	Young Wasps from Will o' the Wasps by Margaret Warner Morley	Irene Behaves Like a Princess from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
	Berries by Walter de la Mare		The Snake by Emily Dickinson		Little Bell from Poems by Thomas Westwood		A Prayer by Edwin Markham

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The North Wind and the Sun

The North Wind and the Sun had a quarrel about which of them was the stronger. While they were disputing with much heat and bluster, a Traveler passed along the road wrapped in a cloak.

"Let us agree," said the Sun, "that he is the stronger who can strip that Traveler of his cloak."

"Very well," growled the North Wind, and at once sent a cold, howling blast against the Traveler.

With the first gust of wind the ends of the cloak whipped about the Traveler's body. But he immediately wrapped it closely around him, and the harder the Wind blew, the tighter he held it to him. The North Wind tore angrily at the cloak, but all his efforts were in vain.

Then the Sun began to shine. At first his beams were gentle, and in the pleasant warmth after the bitter cold of the North Wind, the Traveler unfastened his cloak and let it hang loosely from his shoulders. The Sun's rays grew warmer and warmer. The man took off his cap and mopped his brow. At last he became so heated that he pulled off his cloak, and, to escape the blazing sunshine, threw himself down in the welcome shade of a tree by the roadside.

Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail.