Question
A. Johnny Appleseed
John Chapman, who is known to the world as Johnny Appleseed, must have been a strange sight. His (1) clothing included cloth sacks for shirts and a tin pot for a hat.
In western Pennsylvania, where Johnny lived around 1800, many people grew apples. But there weren’t any apples in the lands further west, which were just then being cleared and settled. So Johnny wandered among his neighbors, asking them for their (2) apple seeds. During his lifetime, Johnny walked thousands of miles, making many long trips from his home to the valleys of Ohio and Indiana. Everywhere he went, he scattered seeds. Many of those seeds fell on (3) ground and grew into strong trees.
Johnny often wandered through areas where Native Americans fought with the white settlers. Since Johnny was a loner, his travels were always (4). He carried no weapon, yet he was never harmed. The Indians believed that the Great Spirit especially loved people like Johnny, who was not like other people. In his own quiet way he (5) the American wilderness, filling it with thousands of flowering, fruit-filled trees.
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