WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:26.000 Once upon a time, not long ago, and not far away, there was a friendly farm. 00:26.000 --> 00:34.000 There's the house with the dog on the front porch. 00:34.000 --> 00:44.000 Is there a pony on this farm? Not near the windmill. 00:45.000 --> 00:56.000 Not in the barn, anyplace, just a big old cow. No pony. 00:56.000 --> 01:04.000 There's a big boot. Now look up, look way up. 01:05.000 --> 01:17.000 That was my boot. A giant wears giant boots, friendly giants too. 01:17.000 --> 01:23.000 The ponies wear boots. If he'd found a pony, would he have boots? 01:23.000 --> 01:31.000 He'd have shoes, like small horse shoes. 01:31.000 --> 01:36.000 Well, let's go to the castle. I'll hurry over first and go in the back door so that I can let the 01:36.000 --> 01:40.000 drawbridge down and open the big front doors for you. 01:40.000 --> 01:44.000 You ready? Here's my castle. 02:02.000 --> 02:07.000 Here we are inside. 02:07.000 --> 02:14.000 And here's one little chair for one of you, and a bigger chair for two more to curl up in, 02:14.000 --> 02:20.000 and a rocking chair for someone who likes to rock. 02:20.000 --> 02:24.000 There. 02:25.000 --> 02:32.000 Now look up, look way up and I'll whistle for Jerome. 02:32.000 --> 02:37.000 He always whistles back, doesn't he? When I whistle this little tune. 02:37.000 --> 02:55.000 He didn't whistle back. Shall I whistle once more? Maybe he isn't coming. 02:55.000 --> 02:59.000 I'll whistle once again. 03:00.000 --> 03:04.000 Oh, oh. 03:04.000 --> 03:08.000 There. Jerome, that's why you didn't whistle back. 03:08.000 --> 03:14.000 I couldn't whistle friendly. You had a horse shoe, and you were carrying it in your mouth. 03:14.000 --> 03:21.000 Well, it isn't one of your shoes. Oh, no. It's not a giraffe shoe. 03:21.000 --> 03:25.000 No, it's a horse shoe. Where'd you get it? I found it. 03:25.000 --> 03:30.000 Found a horse shoe. On the ground? Well, let's hang it up here. 03:30.000 --> 03:37.000 Careful. I won't hurt you. No, I meant that you shouldn't drop it and maybe lose it. 03:37.000 --> 03:46.000 Oh, well. It'd be bad luck to lose it. Oh, Jerome. Bad luck to lose a horse shoe? 03:46.000 --> 03:52.000 Well, it could be bad luck. I don't think so, really, Jerome. That's something that you hear, 03:52.000 --> 03:57.000 but it doesn't really mean that you'd have bad luck just because you lose a horse shoe. 03:57.000 --> 04:01.000 Well, it might be. It happened to a friend of mine. 04:01.000 --> 04:10.000 It did, really? Yes. What happened? Well, he was on a long hike, and he lost a horse shoe, 04:10.000 --> 04:16.000 and he had trouble getting back home. He had bad luck. 04:16.000 --> 04:20.000 Really? Yes. Well, that's too bad. Anyone I know? 04:20.000 --> 04:24.000 I don't think so. He was a horse friend of mine. 04:24.000 --> 04:30.000 Oh, I see. He was a horse, and it was one of his own shoes, a lot. 04:30.000 --> 04:35.000 Well, that would be different. It would be bad luck for a horse to lose one of his own shoes. 04:35.000 --> 04:42.000 It was for him? He'd have trouble getting back from that hike because it would hurt his foot. 04:42.000 --> 04:46.000 Yes. It would go without a shoe gone. Excuse me, Jerome. 04:46.000 --> 04:51.000 It would be the same if he were a pony. Ponies are like horses, a little smaller. 04:51.000 --> 04:57.000 There's a book about a pony who lost a shoe. See? 04:57.000 --> 05:06.000 Oh. That's a shoe for my pony. Do you know who wrote it? No. Margaret Frisky. 05:06.000 --> 05:14.000 Oh. Mm-hmm. And there's a picture of the pony right there. 05:14.000 --> 05:18.000 Oh. Oh. And the book is by Margaret Frisky. 05:18.000 --> 05:24.000 And the pictures are by Jean Edgerton. She drew that picture and all the other pictures in the book. 05:24.000 --> 05:30.000 Nice picture. Do you know who made the book? No. Children's Press. 05:30.000 --> 05:35.000 And I see. And it's about a pony who lost a shoe. Oh. 05:35.000 --> 05:42.000 Like my friend? Yes. Let me get over here where everyone can see all of the pictures. 05:42.000 --> 05:54.000 I hope he found it again. We'll see. We'll see. It's about a little boy who owns the pony. 05:54.000 --> 06:01.000 Oh. There. I can see it now. Can you see it now? Mm-hmm. 06:01.000 --> 06:07.000 And the little boy says, sometimes I wear no shoes. I run through the grass with no shoes. 06:07.000 --> 06:11.000 You see, he goes barefoot. 06:11.000 --> 06:18.000 But I have shoes. I have high shoes and low shoes and walking through the town shoes. 06:18.000 --> 06:27.000 And boots for walking in the rain. Like giant boots, aren't they? 06:27.000 --> 06:32.000 My pony has shoes too, but he lost one. I can't ride him. 06:32.000 --> 06:37.000 He wants a new shoe, a bright shoe, a nail it on tight shoe. 06:37.000 --> 06:43.000 So I went to find a shoe for my pony. A little duck had no shoes. 06:43.000 --> 06:47.000 His feet were webbed for swimming. 06:47.000 --> 06:53.000 And a little lamb had no shoes. And what did the lambs say, Jerome? 06:53.000 --> 06:54.760 Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah..." 06:54.760 --> 06:57.300 That's what the lion said. 06:57.300 --> 07:00.080 And the little kitten had no shoes. 07:00.080 --> 07:02.980 He had soft pads for tiptoeing. 07:02.980 --> 07:08.080 He had claws that he can push out when he wants to climb a tree. 07:08.080 --> 07:15.720 And so do all the cats have paws and claws, tigers and lions... 07:15.720 --> 07:16.980 What's the big lion? 07:16.980 --> 07:19.880 He has paws and claws. 07:19.880 --> 07:21.880 Rabbit had no shoes! 07:21.880 --> 07:25.800 he could dig with his front feet and thump with his back feet and jump right over the tulips. 07:28.200 --> 07:36.440 My cow had no shoes. She wasn't going anywhere. She just stood in the grass and what did she say, 07:37.000 --> 07:49.160 John? Well, my pony was limping and I had to walk and lead him. Some little bird will tell us, 07:49.720 --> 07:59.080 where we can find a shoe for you. Who said the owl? Who? He clung to the tree with his long, 07:59.080 --> 08:07.720 sharp claws. The old hens clucked and scratched for their dinner and the rooster 08:08.280 --> 08:16.280 crowed on the fence. We saw squirrels with their nimble feet and they could hold nuts with their 08:16.360 --> 08:24.440 feet or jump through the trees and catch on to the branches. Then we met a clown with shoes as 08:24.440 --> 08:32.040 big as paddles. Oh, he says your pony needs a shoe. Go across the bridge and into the town 08:33.240 --> 08:37.880 and turn to the right and look for a chestnut tree. 08:38.680 --> 08:51.080 So we did run up the road, cross the bridge, turn to the right and underneath the spreading 08:51.080 --> 09:01.000 chestnut tree was a black smith. Your pony needs a shoe. He said, bring him in, bring him in. 09:01.960 --> 09:09.080 The black smith had a new shoe, a bright shoe, a nail-ed-on tight shoe and he put it on my pony. 09:09.640 --> 09:17.640 You see, he held the pony's leg between his legs and nailed it on and away went the little boy 09:17.640 --> 09:24.520 riding. Clippity-clap, clippity-clap, clippity-clap, clippity-clap, clippity-clap, clippity-clap, clippity-clap, 09:24.600 --> 09:31.240 clippity-clap, clippity-clap, clippity-clap, clippity-clap, clippity-clap. That's all. I was still 09:31.240 --> 09:38.920 riding. Yes, that's the sound the pony made when he had all four of his horse shoes, pony shoes, 09:38.920 --> 09:47.080 pony shoes, pony-clap, clippity-clap. What is this you made of? Iron? 09:47.960 --> 09:56.440 Now, how is it put on the foot as a horse as a pony? Well, I think it's nailed on. 09:56.440 --> 10:03.640 That's what the blacksmith does. Do you think that hurts? No, friendly. No, because a horse or a 10:03.640 --> 10:11.960 pony has special feet, hard, something like my feet. Yes, but do you have horses? No, you don't 10:11.960 --> 10:19.320 have shoes. Well, you don't have to walk on hard roads much, do you? No, not much. You can walk 10:19.320 --> 10:30.440 where it saw grass and fields, things like that. Well, now we know that it's bad luck to lose a 10:30.520 --> 10:38.760 horse shoe if you're a horse and a bad luck to lose a pony shoe if you're a pony. 10:43.960 --> 10:53.400 Clippity-clap, clippity-clap, who wrote the book? Do you remember Margaret Frisky? Yes. You know, 10:53.400 --> 11:03.080 who made the pictures? Gene Edgerton. Gene Edgerton. And you know who made the book? 11:06.360 --> 11:17.240 Children's Press. And it was about a pony. And not only a pony, but all the other animals. 11:17.320 --> 11:25.800 Oh, yes. Who don't have shoes? That's right. Because they can do special things with their 11:25.800 --> 11:33.400 feet. And if they had shoes, they couldn't, like a duck. That's right. They couldn't do all those 11:33.400 --> 11:39.080 things. No, a duck couldn't swim as well if the duck had shoes to get full of water. I never thought 11:39.160 --> 11:44.120 that. Or a squirrel. If a squirrel was wearing shoes, he couldn't climb a tree. That's right. 11:47.160 --> 11:55.800 But it's nice for some of us to have shoes. Giant has to have big boots. You ready? I'm tired. 12:09.240 --> 12:17.080 Good night, Jerome. Good night, friendly. 12:20.920 --> 12:28.680 It is late. This little chair will be waiting for one of you. And the rocking chair for another. 12:31.240 --> 12:35.800 There's a big arm chair for two more to curl up. And when you come again to our castle, 12:35.880 --> 12:40.760 I'll close the big front doors and pull up the dropper jacket you've gone. 12:43.240 --> 12:51.720 Maybe the cowl will jump over the moon. It will be a horse. Good night. Good night. 13:35.800 --> 13:54.840 The friendly giant is Bob Humming. Jerome, the giant giraffe, is Ken Oast. Ed Sprague is the 13:54.840 --> 14:01.000 director. The friendly giant is created and produced for Wisconsin's educational television 14:01.000 --> 14:05.320 station WHA TV by Bob Humming.