1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,480 Hi kids, gather round. 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:04,680 It’s Fairy Tale time... 3 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:08,060 actually this one is a folk tale… 4 00:00:08,060 --> 00:00:10,600 or a fairy tale for Folks… 5 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:13,820 or a Folk tale for fairies… 6 00:00:13,820 --> 00:00:16,560 either way it’s a good one! 7 00:00:16,660 --> 00:00:19,460 Let’s call it Folk Tale Time! 8 00:00:19,820 --> 00:00:22,600 This one is about American legend, 9 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,280 Johnny Appleseed! 10 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:27,700 Are you ready? Let’s go! 11 00:00:28,980 --> 00:00:30,460 Once upon a time 12 00:00:30,460 --> 00:00:34,520 (September 26, 1774, to be exact!) 13 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:38,340 a little boy named Johnny Appleseed was born! 14 00:00:38,340 --> 00:00:42,560 Well, they didn’t call him Johnny Appleseed back then. 15 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:45,800 His real name was John Chapman. 16 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:50,940 Little Johnny Chapman grew up and decided to go explore the country. 17 00:00:50,980 --> 00:00:54,500 Remember, this was over 200 years ago, 18 00:00:54,500 --> 00:00:57,120 so he didn’t get in his car 19 00:00:57,160 --> 00:00:58,960 or fly in a plane, 20 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,920 or even take the bus... 21 00:01:01,020 --> 00:01:03,580 Johnny took off on foot! 22 00:01:03,580 --> 00:01:05,480 And not only did he go on foot, 23 00:01:05,580 --> 00:01:06,980 he went BAREFOOT! 24 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,200 Johnny was always barefoot— 25 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,560 He even went barefoot in the winter! 26 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:15,680 He would walk on snow, 27 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:17,100 and ice, 28 00:01:17,100 --> 00:01:18,320 and rocks, 29 00:01:18,320 --> 00:01:20,140 like it was a cakewalk! 30 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:23,480 That means something that’s really easy... 31 00:01:23,620 --> 00:01:26,120 he didn’t actually walk on cakes. 32 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:27,640 Why would he do that? 33 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:29,140 Cakes are delicious! 34 00:01:29,940 --> 00:01:32,460 Anyway, enough about his feet! 35 00:01:32,460 --> 00:01:34,400 Let’s get to the apples. 36 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:39,560 See, everywhere Johnny went, he carried a sack full of appleseeds. 37 00:01:39,820 --> 00:01:44,120 He walked thousands of miles planting apple trees! 38 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,720 Some say he just dropped seeds as he went along, 39 00:01:47,740 --> 00:01:50,780 kind of like Hansel and Gretel did with crumbs, 40 00:01:51,140 --> 00:01:53,600 but Johnny Appleseed didn’t do that. 41 00:01:53,780 --> 00:01:55,880 He planted apple nurseries. 42 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:00,400 They’re called nurseries because they’re for baby trees! 43 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:04,860 I wonder if Johnny read nursery rhymes to the baby trees? 44 00:02:04,980 --> 00:02:06,980 “Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, 45 00:02:06,980 --> 00:02:08,199 eating an apple pie… 46 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:09,839 Oops! I mean blueberry pie!” 47 00:02:10,380 --> 00:02:15,100 Pretty soon people all over the country knew the man called Johnny Appleseed. 48 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:17,740 A guy like Johnny is hard to forget. 49 00:02:18,020 --> 00:02:21,960 Not only did he go around barefoot, planting apples, 50 00:02:22,380 --> 00:02:26,700 he was also had a habit of giving away his clothes to people who needed them. 51 00:02:27,220 --> 00:02:31,180 Sometimes he just wore a sack with armholes cut out! 52 00:02:31,660 --> 00:02:35,760 But the strangest thing about Johnny’s outfit was his hat. 53 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,420 He wore a tin cookpot on his head. 54 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:41,840 You might think that’s strange, 55 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:45,660 but have you ever tried to cook beans in a baseball cap? 56 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,040 Forget about it! 57 00:02:48,260 --> 00:02:49,760 Johnny looked strange, 58 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:52,020 but that didn’t stop people from loving him. 59 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,540 He was kind to children, and kind to the poor. 60 00:02:55,940 --> 00:03:00,520 He loved animals and nature (even bugs!) 61 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:06,520 —one time he put out his campfire because he saw a mosquito get burned in the flame! 62 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:07,520 Ouch! 63 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:09,080 Sorry bout that! 64 00:03:09,540 --> 00:03:10,720 Thanks, Johnny! 65 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:17,420 Johnny Appleseed spent his entire life just planting apples and happiness. 66 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:21,380 Over the years, people shared their stories about him, 67 00:03:21,380 --> 00:03:25,720 turning Johnny Appleseed into a legend. 68 00:03:25,980 --> 00:03:28,780 The stories grew and spread, 69 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:31,000 just like an apple tree and its seeds, 70 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,860 and that’s why we still talk about Johnny Appleseed today. 71 00:03:36,260 --> 00:03:41,100 Moral of the story, kids, be nice and share your apples, 72 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:46,080 and maybe you’ll become a folk hero with a cool nickname! 73 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:49,440 And best of all, you might not have to wear shoes!! 74 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,680 Check out more stories, like Mulan right here at Cool School! 75 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:56,260 And don’t forget to subscribe! 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