WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:09.280 The Andy Griffith Show! 00:09.280 --> 00:11.480 Starring Andy Griffith! 00:11.480 --> 00:14.920 With Ronnie Howard! 00:14.920 --> 00:22.600 Also starring Don Knotts! 00:22.600 --> 00:25.680 Hope you better hurry along to them grits, you're gonna be late for school. 00:25.680 --> 00:26.680 I ain't hungry. 00:26.680 --> 00:27.680 You ain't hungry? 00:27.680 --> 00:33.080 What's the matter with you? 00:33.080 --> 00:34.080 Feels normal. 00:34.080 --> 00:39.080 Hope, uh, you got something you want to tell me? 00:39.080 --> 00:40.080 No? 00:40.080 --> 00:43.480 Well, you got something you don't want to tell me? 00:43.480 --> 00:45.480 It's old lady Crump. 00:45.480 --> 00:46.920 Old lady what? 00:46.920 --> 00:49.240 Oh, that's his new teacher. 00:49.240 --> 00:50.680 He liked the old one. 00:50.680 --> 00:51.680 Oh. 00:51.680 --> 00:54.320 Well, to start with, you better call her Miss Crump. 00:54.320 --> 00:57.440 What is she not like about her? 00:57.440 --> 00:59.000 She gives too much homework. 00:59.000 --> 01:03.200 Is it because she gives too much or because you ain't done it? 01:03.200 --> 01:05.320 You ask any of the fellas. 01:05.320 --> 01:08.480 Miss Warner, she never gave us all this history junk. 01:08.480 --> 01:09.480 History? 01:09.480 --> 01:12.680 All those dates and stuff. 01:12.680 --> 01:15.160 Does seem to me they're starting them awful young for history. 01:15.160 --> 01:17.080 Well, maybe they have to. 01:17.080 --> 01:18.480 There's more of it these days. 01:18.480 --> 01:20.880 Guess I do, ain't it? 01:20.880 --> 01:23.680 A lot's happened since Dewey took Manila. 01:23.680 --> 01:25.520 Did he take it? 01:25.520 --> 01:29.000 How's a boy going to take his learning seriously if you don't? 01:29.000 --> 01:30.000 Hi. 01:30.000 --> 01:31.000 Am I early? 01:31.000 --> 01:32.000 Oh, hi, Barn. 01:32.000 --> 01:33.000 Come on in. 01:33.000 --> 01:34.000 I'll be with you in a minute. 01:34.000 --> 01:35.000 Have a cup of coffee, Barney. 01:35.000 --> 01:36.000 OK. 01:36.000 --> 01:37.000 Thank you, Andy. 01:37.000 --> 01:38.560 Just getting Opie straightened out a little bit on his schoolwork. 01:38.560 --> 01:39.560 Oh, yeah? 01:39.560 --> 01:40.560 What's the problem, Ope? 01:40.560 --> 01:41.560 History. 01:41.560 --> 01:42.560 Oh. 01:42.560 --> 01:44.120 Opie, if it makes you feel any better. 01:44.120 --> 01:45.960 I never was much at history either. 01:45.960 --> 01:46.960 Weren't you, Andy? 01:46.960 --> 01:47.960 No. 01:47.960 --> 01:48.960 Oh, that's funny. 01:48.960 --> 01:49.960 History was right up my alley. 01:49.960 --> 01:50.960 What? 01:50.960 --> 01:52.360 I don't remember that. 01:52.360 --> 01:53.840 Oh, yeah. 01:53.840 --> 01:55.840 History was one of my best subjects. 01:55.840 --> 01:56.840 It was? 01:56.840 --> 01:57.840 Well, yeah. 01:57.840 --> 01:58.840 Don't you believe me? 01:58.840 --> 01:59.840 Well, ask me something. 01:59.840 --> 02:00.840 Go ahead. 02:00.840 --> 02:01.840 Ask me anything. 02:01.840 --> 02:02.840 OK. 02:02.840 --> 02:03.840 What was the Emancipation Proclamation? 02:03.840 --> 02:04.840 You're kidding? 02:04.840 --> 02:05.840 Everybody knows that. 02:05.840 --> 02:06.840 Well, good. 02:06.840 --> 02:07.840 I'll be easy for you then. 02:07.840 --> 02:08.840 Go ahead. 02:08.840 --> 02:09.840 Tell us about it. 02:09.840 --> 02:10.840 Oh, you're kidding. 02:10.840 --> 02:11.840 That's one of the most famous proclamations there is. 02:11.840 --> 02:12.840 I'll tell you what it is. 02:12.840 --> 02:13.840 It's a very famous proclamation. 02:13.840 --> 02:14.840 It's a very famous proclamation. 02:14.840 --> 02:15.840 Well, go ahead. 02:15.840 --> 02:16.840 Tell us about it. 02:16.840 --> 02:17.840 Well, go ahead. 02:17.840 --> 02:18.840 Tell us about it. 02:18.840 --> 02:19.840 Oh, yeah. 02:19.840 --> 02:20.840 Tell us about it. 02:20.840 --> 02:21.840 I'll tell you what it is. 02:21.840 --> 02:22.840 It's a very famous proclamation. 02:22.840 --> 02:23.840 It's a very famous proclamation. 02:23.840 --> 02:24.840 It's a very famous proclamation. 02:24.840 --> 02:25.840 It's a very famous proclamation. 02:25.840 --> 02:26.840 It's one of the most famous proclamations in history. 02:26.840 --> 02:27.840 I know. 02:27.840 --> 02:28.840 I bet you even Opie knows that one. 02:28.840 --> 02:29.840 Go on. 02:29.840 --> 02:32.840 Tell him, O. 02:32.840 --> 02:35.840 Tell him about the Emancipation Proclamation. 02:35.840 --> 02:37.840 I never heard of it. 02:37.840 --> 02:38.840 You never... 02:38.840 --> 02:41.840 I don't know what they're teaching them these days. 02:41.840 --> 02:42.840 You tell him, Aunt Bea. 02:42.840 --> 02:43.840 Me? 02:43.840 --> 02:46.840 I wasn't there, Lansing. 02:46.840 --> 02:49.840 Well, I guess it's up to you, Barn. 02:49.840 --> 02:51.840 Listen to this so Opie might learn something. 02:51.840 --> 02:56.840 Well, the Emancipation Proclamation... 02:58.840 --> 03:02.840 How do you like that? Spot right there on the uniform. 03:03.840 --> 03:06.840 Guess I ought to be sending this out to the cleaners. 03:12.840 --> 03:15.840 Now you was asking about the... 03:15.840 --> 03:16.840 Emancipation Proclamation. 03:16.840 --> 03:17.840 Yeah. 03:18.840 --> 03:19.840 Go ahead, I'm all ears. 03:19.840 --> 03:21.840 Yeah, you always was. 03:22.840 --> 03:25.840 Well, the Emancipation Proclamation... 03:26.840 --> 03:29.840 Was a... Proclamation's what it was. 03:30.840 --> 03:31.840 What was it about? 03:31.840 --> 03:33.840 About emancipation! What do you think it was about? 03:34.840 --> 03:36.840 What was it about? Use your head, man. 03:36.840 --> 03:38.840 It's common knowledge. 03:38.840 --> 03:44.840 There was these folks, and how else was they gonna get themselves emancipated unless there was a proclamation? 03:44.840 --> 03:49.840 So they got themselves a proclamation and they called it the Emancipation Proclamation. 03:50.840 --> 03:51.840 Yeah. 03:51.840 --> 03:53.840 Yeah, and I'm surprised at you for not knowing that, Andy. 03:53.840 --> 03:58.840 And I'll tell you something else, I'm even more surprised at you thinking I don't know about the Emancipation Proclamation. 03:58.840 --> 04:00.840 We're still waiting for you to tell us about it. 04:00.840 --> 04:03.840 Well, if you get so smart-alecky about it, maybe I'm not even gonna tell you. 04:07.840 --> 04:11.840 You see, Oak, you're not the only one that has trouble with history. 04:11.840 --> 04:12.840 History is hard for me, too. 04:12.840 --> 04:14.840 It is for some people. 04:14.840 --> 04:19.840 So you just do the very best you can, grow up to be a fine young fella, and I'll be satisfied. 04:19.840 --> 04:20.840 Okay? 04:20.840 --> 04:22.840 Okay. Thanks, Pa. 04:22.840 --> 04:27.840 And if you don't know the answers, you just tell Miss What's-Her-Name that you come by it naturally, you hear? 04:27.840 --> 04:28.840 I'll tell her. 04:28.840 --> 04:29.840 Okay. 04:29.840 --> 04:30.840 Bye, everybody. 04:30.840 --> 04:31.840 Bye. 04:30.840 --> 04:31.840 Bye, Oak. 04:31.840 --> 04:33.840 Ooby! We're getting you lunch! 04:33.840 --> 04:34.840 Oh, thanks, A.B. 04:34.840 --> 04:35.840 Here you are. 04:35.840 --> 04:41.840 Here you are. Happy Member is lunch. How can you remember his history? 04:45.840 --> 04:47.840 I wouldn't worry about the Emancipation Proclamation. 04:47.840 --> 04:49.840 Oh, I ain't worried about it. 04:51.840 --> 04:54.840 I feel kind of sorry for Oak, Pa, and some of these teachers. 04:54.840 --> 04:56.840 Remember the one we had, Miss Pickett? 04:56.840 --> 04:57.840 Pickett? 04:57.840 --> 05:00.840 Well, she must have been 107 years old. 05:00.840 --> 05:02.840 Take that long to get that mean. 05:02.840 --> 05:04.840 Yeah. I guess it's one and every school. 05:04.840 --> 05:06.840 Oak's got one of them old witches, huh? 05:06.840 --> 05:08.840 Hmm. Looks like it. 05:08.840 --> 05:11.840 I just hope she don't break his spirits, though. 05:12.840 --> 05:13.840 Miss Crump. 05:15.840 --> 05:17.840 All right, class. History now. 05:22.840 --> 05:25.840 Oh, no. Don't open your books. We'll start with a little review. 05:28.840 --> 05:30.840 Opie Taylor? A man? 05:30.840 --> 05:32.840 You seem very eager to talk. 05:32.840 --> 05:36.840 We'll start with you. Tell us about the founding of Jamestown. 05:37.840 --> 05:39.840 Rise, please, Opie. 05:41.840 --> 05:43.840 The founding of Jamestown. 05:46.840 --> 05:47.840 Well? 05:49.840 --> 05:51.840 I guess I don't know about that. 05:52.840 --> 05:55.840 You should, Opie. It was in your assigned reading. 05:56.840 --> 05:57.840 Yeah. 05:58.840 --> 05:59.840 Well? 05:59.840 --> 06:01.840 Well... 06:01.840 --> 06:03.840 Did you do your homework, Opie? 06:03.840 --> 06:06.840 Yes, ma'am. I mean, sort of. 06:07.840 --> 06:09.840 I mean, no, ma'am. Not all of it. 06:10.840 --> 06:11.840 Why not? 06:13.840 --> 06:16.840 Why not, Opie? Why didn't you do your homework? 06:18.840 --> 06:21.840 Well, my pa said it wasn't too important, all that stuff. 06:23.840 --> 06:24.840 Your father said... 06:24.840 --> 06:29.840 He said he never had to learn it, so why should I? 06:29.840 --> 06:33.840 Opie, your father told you you didn't need to do your homework. Now you're sure of that? 06:33.840 --> 06:37.840 Well, yeah. He said it wasn't my fault. He said it's hard for everybody. 06:37.840 --> 06:40.840 Yeah. It's hard for everybody. 06:41.840 --> 06:44.840 Sit down, Opie. We'll get back to you later. 06:45.840 --> 06:46.840 Howard. 06:46.840 --> 06:48.840 Howdy, dear Dusset. 06:48.840 --> 06:49.840 Rise, please. 06:49.840 --> 06:52.840 We'll let you tell us about the founding of Jamestown. 06:52.840 --> 06:54.840 I don't know. 06:55.840 --> 06:58.840 Why not? Didn't you do your homework either? 06:58.840 --> 07:02.840 Well, he gets away with it. Why don't I? 07:02.840 --> 07:04.840 Yeah! He gets away with it! 07:04.840 --> 07:08.840 Quiet, class! Quiet, boys! Nobody is getting away with anything! 07:09.840 --> 07:13.840 All those who did not do their homework will please raise their hands. 07:16.840 --> 07:17.840 Come on, boys. 07:17.840 --> 07:20.840 Come on, Whitey. Put up your hand. 07:20.840 --> 07:21.840 But I didn't. 07:21.840 --> 07:24.840 Put it up anyway. Come on. Stick together. 07:26.840 --> 07:27.840 Very well. 07:28.840 --> 07:31.840 Those who did not do their work will have their assignment doubled. 07:31.840 --> 07:32.840 Oh, no! 07:32.840 --> 07:36.840 Quiet! Quiet, boys! Nobody is getting away with anything! 07:36.840 --> 07:37.840 Pa! Pa! 07:38.840 --> 07:40.840 What happened to the damn bus? 07:40.840 --> 07:42.840 I stitched my bag. You're an iron, Pa. 07:42.840 --> 07:44.840 Well, take it easy. Take a deep breath. 07:44.840 --> 07:47.840 I told her what you said, Pa. I told her. 07:47.840 --> 07:48.840 You told who what? 07:48.840 --> 07:52.840 Old Lady Crump. Know what she did? Double homework for everybody. 07:52.840 --> 07:53.840 Only the boys. 07:53.840 --> 07:54.840 Only the boys. Not the girls. 07:54.840 --> 07:57.840 But you know what? We ain't gonna do it. Right, pals? 07:57.840 --> 07:58.840 Right. We ain't gonna do it. 07:58.840 --> 08:01.840 And we told her so, too. I told her what you said, Pa. 08:01.840 --> 08:02.840 What did I say? 08:02.840 --> 08:04.840 You know, how his being important anyway. 08:04.840 --> 08:06.840 And how you really don't have to do it. 08:06.840 --> 08:09.840 Well, now, wait a minute. I didn't mean for you to go over there. 08:09.840 --> 08:10.840 No, Lady Crump! 08:10.840 --> 08:12.840 Old Lady Crump! 08:12.840 --> 08:14.840 Damn you guys! 08:14.840 --> 08:15.840 Wait a minute. Wait a minute. 08:21.840 --> 08:22.840 Sheriff Taylor. 08:24.840 --> 08:25.840 You ain't, uh... 08:28.840 --> 08:30.840 You ain't Miss Crump. 08:30.840 --> 08:33.840 I see my class has come to you for further instruction. 08:33.840 --> 08:34.840 Uh, how's that? 08:34.840 --> 08:36.840 Sheriff Taylor, I'm surprised at you. 08:36.840 --> 08:39.840 How can I teach a class if the parents won't cooperate? 08:39.840 --> 08:42.840 How could I be expected to maintain discipline? 08:43.840 --> 08:44.840 Well, uh... 08:44.840 --> 08:48.840 Sheriff, did you or did you not tell Opie that he needn't do his history? 08:49.840 --> 08:51.840 Well, uh... Well, no. 08:51.840 --> 08:55.840 No, I mean, I might have thought it was a little beyond his years, 08:55.840 --> 08:57.840 and he might have got that idea. 08:57.840 --> 09:00.840 Now, Sheriff, isn't that for the teacher to decide? 09:00.840 --> 09:02.840 Well, yes, ma'am. I mean, I... 09:02.840 --> 09:05.840 When I took over this class, they were woefully behind in their studies. 09:05.840 --> 09:09.840 I thought with a little pressure I'd be able to bring them up to where they belong. 09:09.840 --> 09:12.840 Well, Sheriff, I was just beginning to make a little progress. 09:12.840 --> 09:15.840 Just beginning, when you came along, and you fixed it. 09:15.840 --> 09:19.840 Oh, well, ma'am, if I've done anything or if I've said... 09:19.840 --> 09:23.840 Sheriff, I just want you to know that you've made my job very difficult for me. 09:23.840 --> 09:26.840 Would you please do me just one favor? 09:26.840 --> 09:35.840 Just stay out of my business, please! 09:40.840 --> 09:44.840 Ooh-ee! What was that all about? 09:44.840 --> 09:45.840 Whew! 09:45.840 --> 09:49.840 Mmm! Mmm! 09:52.840 --> 09:54.840 You see that foot? 09:54.840 --> 10:00.840 How could that great big foot, all of it, fit in my mouth? 10:03.840 --> 10:05.840 Pa, you did it! 10:05.840 --> 10:07.840 Yeah! You really did it! 10:07.840 --> 10:08.840 You did it all right! 10:08.840 --> 10:09.840 Did what? 10:09.840 --> 10:10.840 You must have really told her! 10:10.840 --> 10:11.840 Yeah! Teach her a lesson! 10:11.840 --> 10:13.840 She thinks she's so much more funny on her! 10:13.840 --> 10:15.840 Because you're the Sheriff, and I guess she found out! 10:15.840 --> 10:16.840 Yeah! You said it! 10:16.840 --> 10:17.840 What are you talking about? 10:17.840 --> 10:20.840 Old Lady Crump! Howie got sent to the principal's office. 10:20.840 --> 10:22.840 And while he was sitting there, you tell him, Howie, 10:22.840 --> 10:25.840 they were talking, a couple of those teachers, I mean, 10:25.840 --> 10:27.840 and he said maybe she's gonna quit! 10:27.840 --> 10:31.840 She might not even be back Monday! How about that, Pa? 10:34.840 --> 10:38.840 Well, I guess you got rid of her all right. 10:38.840 --> 10:40.840 We didn't, you did! 10:40.840 --> 10:42.840 You really run her out of town, Pa! 10:42.840 --> 10:47.840 Well, I guess they'll have to find you a new teacher, huh? 10:47.840 --> 10:48.840 Yeah! 10:48.840 --> 10:53.840 Yeah! 10:53.840 --> 10:56.840 Hey, they might not be able to find you a new teacher. 10:56.840 --> 10:58.840 All the trouble you give Miss Crump! 10:58.840 --> 11:00.840 Yeah! 11:00.840 --> 11:03.840 And if they do find one, I bet she won't give you any of that history homework! 11:03.840 --> 11:05.840 Oh, yeah! 11:05.840 --> 11:07.840 I'm glad for you. You know that? I'm glad for you. 11:07.840 --> 11:09.840 That history's hard! 11:09.840 --> 11:10.840 You're lucky, you know that? 11:10.840 --> 11:13.840 You know what you ought to do? Go out and celebrate! 11:13.840 --> 11:14.840 Yeah! 11:14.840 --> 11:17.840 Yeah, listen, listen, listen, go out and play and have a good time. 11:17.840 --> 11:21.840 You won't have to study all that stuff and mess around learning all that dull stuff 11:21.840 --> 11:26.840 about Indians and redcoats and cannons and guns and muskets and stuff. 11:26.840 --> 11:29.840 Yeah! 11:29.840 --> 11:34.840 What about Indians and redcoats and cannons and muskets and guns and stuff? 11:34.840 --> 11:40.840 Oh, you know, Indians and redcoats and, you know, history. 11:40.840 --> 11:41.840 Yeah? 11:41.840 --> 11:45.840 Yeah, they had the craziest gun. 11:45.840 --> 11:47.840 What gun? 11:47.840 --> 11:55.840 Oh, they had a gun that fired a shot that was heard clear around the world. 11:55.840 --> 12:08.840 Darnest thing I ever heard, huh? 12:08.840 --> 12:10.840 What gun? 12:10.840 --> 12:11.840 What? 12:11.840 --> 12:13.840 What kind of gun? 12:13.840 --> 12:14.840 What kind of gun what? 12:14.840 --> 12:15.840 You know what kind of gun. 12:15.840 --> 12:18.840 The kind of gun that could fire a shot that could be heard clear around the world. 12:18.840 --> 12:21.840 Tell us about that gun. 12:21.840 --> 12:26.840 Well, uh, there was this fella. 12:26.840 --> 12:29.840 You sure you want to hear this story's history? 12:29.840 --> 12:31.840 Yeah, yeah, yeah, why not? 12:31.840 --> 12:35.840 For Pete's sake, tell the story. 12:35.840 --> 12:43.840 Well, one time a long time ago, this country was a part of England. 12:43.840 --> 12:45.840 And we wasn't getting along with them too good. 12:45.840 --> 12:49.840 In fact, we was thinking about breaking away and starting our own country. 12:49.840 --> 12:56.840 But the king over there in England, he says, you do that and I'm going to send my redcoats. 12:56.840 --> 13:01.840 They was British soldiers and he's going to send them over here to whoop us. 13:01.840 --> 13:03.840 Oh, the nerve! 13:03.840 --> 13:04.840 Yeah. 13:04.840 --> 13:07.840 He says, you better think about that thing. 13:07.840 --> 13:11.840 Well, so your great, great, great, great, great, great granddaddies all got together. 13:11.840 --> 13:13.840 You know, to think about it. 13:13.840 --> 13:15.840 And they argued about it back and forth a while. 13:15.840 --> 13:17.840 And finally one of them says, let's do it. 13:17.840 --> 13:19.840 Let's start our own country. 13:19.840 --> 13:21.840 Somebody says, how you do that? 13:21.840 --> 13:22.840 Says, I don't know. 13:22.840 --> 13:23.840 Says, I reckon you just start. 13:23.840 --> 13:25.840 Says, uh, what do we call it? 13:25.840 --> 13:29.840 Says, let's call it, let's call it the United States of America. 13:29.840 --> 13:30.840 That was a good name. 13:30.840 --> 13:31.840 Yeah. 13:31.840 --> 13:37.840 Now about that time, up in Boston, Massachusetts, there's a fella living up there named Paul Revere. 13:37.840 --> 13:41.840 And he's a pretty good old fella, just as poor as Job's turkey, but he's a pretty good old fella. 13:41.840 --> 13:44.840 And he owned a real good old horse named Nelly. 13:44.840 --> 13:49.840 Now Paul, he was wandering around the streets up there one night and he come up on a friend of his. 13:49.840 --> 13:51.840 And he says, howdy, what's new? 13:51.840 --> 13:53.840 His friend says, what's new? 13:53.840 --> 13:54.840 Says, the British is coming. 13:54.840 --> 13:55.840 That's what's new. 13:55.840 --> 13:57.840 What's the matter with thee? 13:57.840 --> 13:58.840 And Paul says, you're kidding. 13:58.840 --> 13:59.840 He says, it's a fact. 13:59.840 --> 14:01.840 Says, I just heard it from an Indian. 14:01.840 --> 14:04.840 And you know them Indians, they keep their ears to the ground. 14:04.840 --> 14:06.840 And Paul says, do the folks know about this? 14:06.840 --> 14:09.840 The fella says, I just heard about it myself. 14:09.840 --> 14:10.840 And Paul says, well, what we gonna do? 14:10.840 --> 14:12.840 And the fella says, I'm getting out of town. 14:12.840 --> 14:14.840 And Paul says, well, we got to spread the word. 14:14.840 --> 14:15.840 He says, you spread it. 14:15.840 --> 14:17.840 I'm getting out of town. 14:17.840 --> 14:22.840 Well, Paul, he didn't know what to do, but he knowed he had to do something. 14:22.840 --> 14:24.840 Now it happened. 14:24.840 --> 14:32.840 It happened that they had planned, if the British was ever to come over here, that they'd put a light up in this high church steeple. 14:32.840 --> 14:34.840 And Paul went down there to look. 14:34.840 --> 14:38.840 And sure enough, there was the light burning brighter than day. 14:38.840 --> 14:42.840 Well, Paul, he jumped on his old horse and he lit out. 14:42.840 --> 14:45.840 He didn't know where he was going, but he knew he had to go somewhere. 14:45.840 --> 14:47.840 Oh, I wish you could have seen it. 14:47.840 --> 14:52.840 That old horse with his ears laid back and his nostrils wide open, sucking in wind like a jet engine, 14:52.840 --> 14:55.840 feet pounding on them cobblestones, striking off sparks. 14:55.840 --> 14:59.840 Paul holding on for dear life and hollering at the top of his lungs. 14:59.840 --> 15:01.840 He says, the British is coming. 15:01.840 --> 15:02.840 The British is coming. 15:02.840 --> 15:03.840 Get your gun. 15:03.840 --> 15:05.840 We going to have us a revolution. 15:05.840 --> 15:10.840 And them farmers come up piling out of the hay like bees out of a beehive. 15:10.840 --> 15:12.840 Minute men, they's called. 15:12.840 --> 15:13.840 They grabbed their squirrel guns. 15:13.840 --> 15:14.840 What's minute men? 15:14.840 --> 15:15.840 Minute men? 15:15.840 --> 15:18.840 They's fellas that had to be ready at a minute's notice. 15:18.840 --> 15:26.840 And when Paul comes screeching down the road that way, they grabbed their guns and hid out behind the weeds and walls and trees and everywhere. 15:26.840 --> 15:35.840 And when the British come prancing along all dressed up in their red suits and waving to the girls, they let them have it. 15:35.840 --> 15:38.840 It was a sight to see. 15:38.840 --> 15:40.840 And then it happened. 15:40.840 --> 15:42.840 They fired the gun. 15:42.840 --> 15:44.840 They fired the gun. 15:44.840 --> 15:50.840 And the shot was so loud, it was heard clear around the world. 15:50.840 --> 15:52.840 Oh, get out. 15:52.840 --> 15:57.840 It's a fact. That's the way this country started. 15:57.840 --> 16:01.840 You read the book? 16:01.840 --> 16:04.840 What book? 16:04.840 --> 16:07.840 Yeah, what book? 16:07.840 --> 16:09.840 Where'd you get that story, Paul? 16:09.840 --> 16:13.840 Oh, your history book. 16:13.840 --> 16:15.840 My history book? 16:15.840 --> 16:16.840 Sure. 16:16.840 --> 16:19.840 All kinds of good stories stuck in there amongst history. 16:19.840 --> 16:21.840 Yeah? Could it be what you just told us? 16:21.840 --> 16:23.840 Sure. Some of them even better. 16:23.840 --> 16:24.840 No fooling, Paul? 16:24.840 --> 16:25.840 No fooling. 16:25.840 --> 16:32.840 You fellas look through that book, I bet you in a couple of weeks you'd be coming in here telling me stories. 16:32.840 --> 16:34.840 That might not be a bad idea. You know that? 16:34.840 --> 16:35.840 What? 16:35.840 --> 16:39.840 Form a kind of a troop. A history troop. Mayberry minute men. 16:39.840 --> 16:40.840 Yeah. 16:40.840 --> 16:41.840 Hey, how about that? 16:41.840 --> 16:42.840 I've got a canteen. 16:42.840 --> 16:46.840 Will you help us? 16:46.840 --> 16:49.840 I mean, help. 16:49.840 --> 16:50.840 Will you, Paul? 16:50.840 --> 16:54.840 Sure. It'd be a pleasure. As soon as you pass the fitness test, I'll deputize you. 16:54.840 --> 16:57.840 What's the fitness test? 16:57.840 --> 17:02.840 Oh, let's see. Oh, uh... 17:02.840 --> 17:04.840 How about that list of dates the teacher gave you? 17:04.840 --> 17:06.840 You mean we gotta learn all that stuff? 17:06.840 --> 17:08.840 Well, you can't let in everybody. 17:08.840 --> 17:11.840 He's right. We gotta keep somebody out. 17:11.840 --> 17:12.840 Or in a club. 17:12.840 --> 17:13.840 Yeah. 17:13.840 --> 17:16.840 What say? Mayberry minute men always ready with the answers? 17:16.840 --> 17:17.840 Yeah. 17:17.840 --> 17:20.840 And any guy that don't join is ridic. 17:20.840 --> 17:21.840 Yeah. 17:21.840 --> 17:43.840 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 17:43.840 --> 17:48.840 All right, class, be seated. 17:48.840 --> 17:55.840 We'll start this morning with history. 17:55.840 --> 18:17.840 You'll turn to page, uh... 18:17.840 --> 18:20.840 Boys. 18:20.840 --> 18:28.840 I'm not talking about the girls now. 18:28.840 --> 18:36.840 Every morning when we come in this class, we say a pledge of allegiance to the flag. 18:36.840 --> 18:43.840 I just wonder if any of you boys ever hear those words. 18:43.840 --> 18:47.840 Or if you ever think about what they mean. 18:47.840 --> 18:51.840 I doubt it. 18:51.840 --> 18:59.840 Do any of you have the faintest idea how this country got started or have any interest in learning about it? 18:59.840 --> 19:01.840 If you have, you just haven't shown it. 19:01.840 --> 19:03.840 I don't know why you even bothered. 19:03.840 --> 19:04.840 Opie, what is it? 19:04.840 --> 19:05.840 I know. 19:05.840 --> 19:07.840 You know what? 19:07.840 --> 19:08.840 How this country got started. 19:08.840 --> 19:10.840 Indeed. 19:10.840 --> 19:12.840 Well, suppose you tell. 19:12.840 --> 19:19.840 Founding of Jamestown, 1607, the first colony was founded in Jamestown, Virginia by Captain John Smith. 19:19.840 --> 19:21.840 He was a friend of Pocahontas. 19:21.840 --> 19:22.840 Her father was an Indian chief. 19:22.840 --> 19:24.840 She was an Indian, too. 19:24.840 --> 19:26.840 But she was a friend of his and she wouldn't let him. 19:26.840 --> 19:27.840 Kill him, I mean. 19:27.840 --> 19:28.840 He wasn't the first. 19:28.840 --> 19:30.840 Columbus was in 1492. 19:30.840 --> 19:33.840 It wasn't at Jamestown, it was in San Salvador. 19:33.840 --> 19:34.840 That ain't the United States, you dope. 19:34.840 --> 19:36.840 That's in the West Indies. 19:36.840 --> 19:37.840 What about the Pilgrims? 19:37.840 --> 19:38.840 They weren't the first Americans. 19:38.840 --> 19:39.840 The Indians were. 19:39.840 --> 19:40.840 Ain't that right, Miss Cross? 19:40.840 --> 19:42.840 No, that's not right. 19:42.840 --> 19:43.840 Boys. 19:43.840 --> 19:46.840 Boys, now you've raised some very interesting questions. 19:46.840 --> 19:51.840 Suppose we just start back at the beginning and take them one at a time. 19:51.840 --> 19:55.840 Paul Revere wasn't even alive then, as a hundred years later. 19:55.840 --> 19:57.840 You'll be knocking him. 19:57.840 --> 19:58.840 Who's knocking? 19:58.840 --> 19:59.840 You're knocking. 19:59.840 --> 20:02.840 Boys, we'll get to Paul Revere, I promise you. 20:02.840 --> 20:12.840 Now, if we can all just keep our shirts on. 20:12.840 --> 20:13.840 You know, Ang. 20:13.840 --> 20:14.840 Hmm? 20:14.840 --> 20:16.840 I've been thinking. 20:16.840 --> 20:17.840 What about? 20:17.840 --> 20:19.840 Education. 20:19.840 --> 20:20.840 Modern education. 20:20.840 --> 20:22.840 What's wrong with it? 20:22.840 --> 20:23.840 There's something wrong with it? 20:23.840 --> 20:27.840 Well, there's obviously something wrong with it when you can't get a little fella to remember dates. 20:27.840 --> 20:30.840 It should be the simplest thing in the world to remember dates. 20:30.840 --> 20:32.840 All you need is a system. 20:32.840 --> 20:33.840 Yeah. 20:33.840 --> 20:39.840 Who's got the system? 20:39.840 --> 20:45.840 If they ever introduce this system into the schools, it'll revolutionize the whole world of modern education. 20:45.840 --> 20:46.840 Is that right? 20:46.840 --> 20:47.840 Yeah. 20:47.840 --> 20:48.840 Want to hear about it? 20:48.840 --> 20:49.840 Are you kidding? 20:49.840 --> 20:52.840 Someone could revolutionize the whole world of modern education? 20:52.840 --> 20:53.840 I sure do, shoot. 20:53.840 --> 20:54.840 All right. 20:54.840 --> 20:56.840 Let's take a date in history. 20:56.840 --> 20:59.840 Say, uh, 1776. 20:59.840 --> 21:00.840 Now, that's a famous date. 21:00.840 --> 21:01.840 That's right. 21:01.840 --> 21:03.840 All right, how do you remember it? 21:03.840 --> 21:04.840 Okay. 21:04.840 --> 21:07.840 The first number is one. 21:07.840 --> 21:08.840 Yeah. 21:08.840 --> 21:10.840 Now, that's easy to remember because that's the first number in the alphabet. 21:10.840 --> 21:11.840 Yeah. 21:11.840 --> 21:16.840 Now, the second number is, you just remember, lucky seven. 21:16.840 --> 21:17.840 Lucky seven. 21:17.840 --> 21:18.840 See? 21:18.840 --> 21:19.840 Now, you got one and seven. 21:19.840 --> 21:20.840 Now, what's the third number? 21:20.840 --> 21:21.840 Seven. 21:21.840 --> 21:24.840 Now, that's easy to remember because you just remembered seven. 21:24.840 --> 21:25.840 That's right, yeah. 21:25.840 --> 21:27.840 Now, you got one, seven, and seven. 21:27.840 --> 21:28.840 Two sevens, yeah. 21:28.840 --> 21:30.840 Now, what's the last number? 21:30.840 --> 21:32.840 All right, here's how you remember that. 21:32.840 --> 21:35.840 What's one from seven? 21:35.840 --> 21:36.840 Six. 21:36.840 --> 21:37.840 Six. 21:37.840 --> 21:38.840 1776. 21:38.840 --> 21:39.840 Yeah, that's good. 21:39.840 --> 21:40.840 Yeah, it works out. 21:40.840 --> 21:45.840 Wouldn't it be just as easy to just go ahead and remember 1776? 21:45.840 --> 21:48.840 Well, if you want to do things the easy way, you're never going to learn anything. 21:48.840 --> 21:55.840 Oh, howdy. 21:55.840 --> 21:57.840 Sheriff Taylor. 21:57.840 --> 21:59.840 Just what are you, some kind of Spengali? 21:59.840 --> 22:01.840 I don't believe I know what you mean. 22:01.840 --> 22:02.840 Well, it's those boys in my class. 22:02.840 --> 22:04.840 I've never seen such a change. 22:04.840 --> 22:07.840 I just don't know what to expect of them anymore. 22:07.840 --> 22:09.840 Sheriff, what did you do? 22:09.840 --> 22:11.840 Oh, I didn't do nothing. 22:11.840 --> 22:13.840 Well, now, you must have done something. 22:13.840 --> 22:16.840 Oh, they come by and we had a little talk. 22:16.840 --> 22:19.840 Oh, well, I'd love to know what it was you talked about. 22:19.840 --> 22:21.840 Well, I'll tell you the truth. 22:21.840 --> 22:23.840 I didn't know what to say to them. 22:23.840 --> 22:27.840 I just kind of told them a little tale. 22:27.840 --> 22:29.840 Just told them a little tale, huh? 22:29.840 --> 22:32.840 Well, you know, put a little extra jam on the bread. 22:32.840 --> 22:35.840 You must have used a very special jam. 22:35.840 --> 22:39.840 Well, I don't know that anything I said to them would hold up in court, 22:39.840 --> 22:43.840 but since I got them out of the spirit, I was just trying to get them back in it. 22:43.840 --> 22:49.840 And you may give them a few pointers, you know, on how to remember dates and things like that. 22:49.840 --> 22:51.840 This is Point 5. 22:51.840 --> 22:52.840 How do you do, Mr. Fyfe? 22:52.840 --> 22:54.840 Glad to be of help, ma'am. 22:54.840 --> 22:55.840 History's kind of a hobby of mine. 22:55.840 --> 22:57.840 I understand you're in that line yourself. 22:57.840 --> 22:58.840 Yes, I am. 22:58.840 --> 22:59.840 Oh, why don't you sit down? 22:59.840 --> 23:03.840 Uh, Barney, excuse me. 23:03.840 --> 23:05.840 Have you got them reports filled out? 23:05.840 --> 23:06.840 What reports? 23:06.840 --> 23:09.840 Any reports that need filling up. 23:09.840 --> 23:10.840 Hey, I got an idea. 23:10.840 --> 23:11.840 Why don't I walk you home? 23:11.840 --> 23:14.840 There's a few things I'd like to talk over with you. 23:14.840 --> 23:15.840 Oh. 23:15.840 --> 23:16.840 You know about history and everything. 23:16.840 --> 23:19.840 Miss Strump, do you know about the Emancipation Proclamation? 23:19.840 --> 23:20.840 Well, yes, I do. 23:20.840 --> 23:22.840 Well, Andy here was just asking me about it the other day. 23:22.840 --> 23:24.840 Why don't you sit down and fill us in on that? 23:24.840 --> 23:25.840 Hey, I know. 23:25.840 --> 23:27.840 We can talk about that on the way over to your house. 23:27.840 --> 23:28.840 Oh, I'll bring the car around. 23:28.840 --> 23:29.840 The reports, Barney. 23:29.840 --> 23:30.840 Now, about the man... 23:30.840 --> 23:44.840 Well, this is it. 23:44.840 --> 23:46.840 Thank you for walking me home, Sheriff. 23:46.840 --> 23:47.840 I enjoyed it. 23:47.840 --> 23:49.840 I enjoyed our little talk. 23:49.840 --> 23:52.840 Well, I'm kind of glad I got a chance to explain things. 23:52.840 --> 23:55.840 I reckon you do have to be careful what you say in front of young'uns. 23:55.840 --> 23:57.840 They'll pick up on the derndest things. 23:57.840 --> 23:59.840 They will try to turn it to their advantage. 23:59.840 --> 24:01.840 They sure will. 24:01.840 --> 24:04.840 I'm kind of glad about the whole thing, though. 24:04.840 --> 24:06.840 Give us a chance to get acquainted. 24:06.840 --> 24:10.840 Yes. 24:10.840 --> 24:11.840 Hi. 24:11.840 --> 24:12.840 Hi. 24:12.840 --> 24:15.840 Hey, Andy, there weren't any reports in the last... 24:15.840 --> 24:17.840 I told you I did them all this morning. 24:17.840 --> 24:18.840 Yeah. 24:18.840 --> 24:20.840 I went to your school to find out where Miss Crump lived. 24:20.840 --> 24:21.840 Thought I'd join you. 24:21.840 --> 24:24.840 Did you tell him about the Emancipation Proclamation yet? 24:24.840 --> 24:25.840 Well, no, I... 24:25.840 --> 24:26.840 Good, good. 24:26.840 --> 24:27.840 Then I'm just in time. 24:27.840 --> 24:29.840 Go ahead and tell him about it. 24:29.840 --> 24:58.840 We'll see if your version jives with mine. 24:58.840 --> 25:23.840 Thank you.