October Readings

Good and Bad Children by Robert Louis Stevenson

Please by Alicia Aspinwall

Rebecca by Hillaire Belloc

Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore by William Brightly Rands

The Lovable Child by Emilie Poulsson

To the Little Girl Who Wriggles by Laura Richards

Jim by Hillaire Belloc

The Duel by Eugene Fields

The King and His Hawk by Thomas Jefferson

Anger by Charles and Mary Lamb

Dirty Jim by Jane Taylor

The Story of Augustus by Heinrich Hoffmann

The Boy and the Nuts by Aesop

The Fox and the Crow by Aesop 

The Frogs and the Well
by Aesop

Two frogs lived together in a marsh. But one hot summer the marsh dried up, and they left it to look for another place to live in, for frogs like damp places if they can get them. By and by they came to a deep well, and one of them liiked down into it, and said to the other, "This looks like a nice cool place. Let us jump in and settle here." But the other, who had a wiser head on his shoulders, replied, "Not so fast my friend. Supposing this well dried up like the marsh, how would we get out again?"

Think twice before you act.
Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite
by Isaac Watts
Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
For God hath made them so;
Let bears and lions growl and fight,
For 'tis their nature too.
But, children, you should never let
Such angry passions rise;
Your little hands were never made
To tear each other's eyes.
 
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