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 30	First Pipes—"I've Lost My Knife" from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain	Charles II—The Story of How London Was Burned from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall	Venom from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre	The High King Comes to the Fair from Our Little Celtic Cousin of Long Ago by Evaleen Stein	A Reign of Terror from The Struggle for Sea Power by M. B. Synge	Riquet with the Tuft from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Across the Lake by Lisa M. Ripperton	The Good Shepherd and the Good Samaritan from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Marco Polo from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan	The Coyote of Pelican Point from Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp	The Stamp Act from Four American Patriots by Alma Holman Burton In the House of Burgesses from Four American Patriots by Alma Holman Burton	The Apes, the Glow-Worm, and the Popinjay from The Tortoise and the Geese and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Barrows Dutton	The Story of the Vengeance of the Volsungs and of the Death of Sinfiotli from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum	Eyes and Other Matters Concerning Pelopaeus from Will o' the Wasps by Margaret Warner Morley	Curdie and His Mother from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
	Nikolina by Celia Thaxter	The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning	The Owl by Alfred Lord Tennyson	Birds in Summer by Mary Howitt	Upon the Mountain's Distant Head from Poems by William Cullen Bryant	Some Fishy Nonsense by Laura E. Richards	Nature's Friend by William H. Davies

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Ass in the Lion's Skin

An Ass found a Lion's skin left in the forest by a hunter. He dressed himself in it, and amused himself by hiding in a thicket and rushing out suddenly at the animals who passed that way. All took to their heels the moment they saw him.

The Ass was so pleased to see the animals running away from him, just as if he were King Lion himself, that he could not keep from expressing his delight by a loud, harsh bray. A Fox, who ran with the rest, stopped short as soon as he heard the voice. Approaching the Ass, he said with a laugh:

"If you had kept your mouth shut you might have frightened me, too. But you gave yourself away with that silly bray."

A fool may deceive by his dress and appearance, but his words will soon show what he really is.