Hi guys! My name is Judy,
and I'm joined here by my daughter Julianna
Today we're gonna read a story called
The Emperor's New Clothes, here on Cool School.
Once there was an emperor who had anything he could ever want.
Gold,
food,
PlayStation 4
and tons of the FANCIEST clothes you'd ever seen.
He had it all.
And when you have it all,
you get bored easily.
Well, one day, these two weirdos came into town.
Two fellas with very small eyes, long wavy hair and great big mouths, which made them oh so very loud!
"Where’s the emperor?"
"Where is he?"
"Make way! Very important!"
They made their way to the palace and they were SO very loud
that they got right past the guards,
who weren’t quite sure what hit them.
“I’m sorry master, I don’t know how they got past the guards!”
said the secretary of defense as the two loud weirdos made their way into the great hall
“Whoooooooo aaaaaaaare these weirrrrdooooooos?”
“Who US?"
"We're merchants, you see."
"Here to sell you clothes. Good clothes! the BEST clothes!"
"Only the best!"
“But Iiiiiiiiiiiiii already haaaaaaaaaave cloooooothes.”
“Not like these….”
And just as they said that they opened up their large travel chest that they had lugged over,
and held up the most beautiful,
most luxurious,
most stunning and breathtaking-
“Nothing… I see…. I see nothing.”
said the secretary of defense
“Ah yes... That’s the beauty of these garments."
"They are so fine and so beautiful
that only those who are worthy to look upon them can see them.”
Well the truth of the matter was that the emperor couldn’t see them either!
In fact NO ONE could see them because they weren’t there!
The clothes were fake,
the two weirdos were thieves! Looking to steal the emperor’s gold!
And one thing you should know about the Emperor is that he was not the brightest man.
A wise man would have shared all of his riches to help the kingdom flourish,
but instead he lived his happy rich life up in his great palace
while the people of his kingdom worked the fields and barely got enough food to scrape by.
The Emperor was so worried about being the best most wealthiest man in all the land
that when the weirdos asked HIM if he could see the fanciest clothes in all the land he said
“nnnnnnnnnnnYES. Of COURSE!
Of COURSE I can see them, and oh they're BEAUTIFUUUUUUUUUUULL!!!”
The thieves’ plan had worked!
The emperor was so greedy that even the thought of not being worthy enough to see them drove him NUTS!
“Oh… um- er- YES I see them now!”
"I wasn’t looking hard enough!”
“Oh good! Oh good, we were worried you weren’t worthy!"
"Certainly the second in command should be worthy enough to see the emperor’s new clothes!”
So the men helped the Emperor strip down to his underpants to try on the new clothing,
and pretended to put it on him.
“Are you comfortable sir?”
“Oh yes! Most comfortable I have ever been!”
“We’ll take these old rags”
and they stuffed the emperor’s $60,000 suit into their travel chest.
“I’ll never wear anything else again!"
"Take away ALL of my old clothes!”
And they took every last beautiful garment from the room.
“And anyone who’s NOT worthy enough to see these fine new clothes?”
“They Should be THROWN OUT! Banished from the Kingdom!”
Well the people didn’t want to be thrown out of their homes!
So THEY all pretended to see the new beautiful clothes as well!
And so the two weirdo’s went off with all of the finest clothes in the land,
to open a consignment shop two kingdoms over,
leaving only the underpants that the Emperor wore,
day in and day out, as he walked around his kingdom looking like a fool.
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