Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet

The Splendor Falls

The splendor falls on castle walls
And snowy summits old in story:
The long light shakes across the lakes
And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes dying, dying, dying.

O hark, O hear! how thin and clear,
And thinner, clearer, farther going!
O sweet and far from cliff and scar
The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!
Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying,
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes dying, dying, dying.

O love they die in yon rich sky,
They faint on hill or field, or river:
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow forever and forever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 2	Peter's Coal-Mine from The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit	Henry VI of Windsor—The Maid of Orleans from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall	The Fairy Tale and the True Story from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre	How the Baron Went Forth to Shear from Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle	The Struggle in Ireland from The Awakening of Europe by M. B. Synge	The Valiant Little Tailor from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Upon the Rock by Lisa M. Ripperton	The Angel by the Altar from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Attila the Hun from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan	The Turkey Drive from Winter by Dallas Lore Sharp	Marco Polo from Builders of Our Country: Book I by Gertrude van Duyn Southworth	How the Turtle Saved His Own Life from Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt	The Building of the Wall from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum	Parts of a Caterpillar from Insect Life by Arabella B. Buckley	Golden Guineas from Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
	Moon Folly by Fannie Stearns Gifford	The Cricket by William Cowper	The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson	Answer to a Child's Question by Samuel Taylor Coleridge	The Wind and the Moon from Poems by George MacDonald	A Was Once an Apple Pie by Edward Lear	Jim Jay by Walter de la Mare

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet

A store of honey had been found in a hollow tree, and the Wasps declared positively that it belonged to them. The Bees were just as sure that the treasure was theirs. The argument grew very pointed, and it looked as if the affair could not be settled without a battle, when at last, with much good sense, they agreed to let a judge decide the matter. So they brought the case before the Hornet, justice of the peace in that part of the woods.

When the judge called the case, witnesses declared that they had seen certain winged creatures in the neighborhood of the hollow tree, who hummed loudly, and whose bodies were striped, yellow and black, like Bees.

Counsel for the Wasps immediately insisted that this description fitted his clients exactly.

Such evidence did not help Judge Hornet to any decision, so he adjourned court for six weeks to give him time to think it over. When the case came up again, both sides had a large number of witnesses. An Ant was first to take the stand, and was about to be cross-examined, when a wise old Bee addressed the Court.

"Your honor," he said, "the case has now been pending for six weeks. If it is not decided soon, the honey will not be fit for anything. I move that the Bees and the Wasps be both instructed to build a honey comb. Then we shall soon see to whom the honey really belongs."

The Wasps protested loudly. Wise Judge Hornet quickly understood why they did so: They knew they could not build a honey comb and fill it with honey.

"It is clear," said the judge, "who made the comb and who could not have made it. The honey belongs to the Bees."

Ability proves itself by deeds.