 Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia Claudia based on the famous play and novels by Rose Franken Brought to you transcribed by your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself. Have a coke and now Claudia Still yawning all day April showers almost April Winters as good as gone in a month. Everything will be green Junkals will be out air will smell better than a bakery always your stomach You're certainly in an eating mood tonight. Well, guess it's all this rain. I Hate it during the day, but there's something nice about it at night. Isn't there? nice Sides it'll make them yellow where this spring. Yeah much yellow What? Daffodils, of course It it makes them jump further to what? Daffodils now frogs. Oh, oh frogs. I'd almost forgotten about frogs They'll be coming up from the bottom of the brook any day You know David, I bet you frogs think springs made especially for them. I sure do David Bobby'll think springs made especially for him too. I don't know. I don't I don't think he's quite old enough yet He's only nine months. You know perfectly. Well Papa Get an old in it. You know actually he looks years younger than the day he was born David you think he'll notice spring. Oh beyond a doubt every bud this first, you know This kind of too bad that a first spring comes when you're so young our next child will arrange it differently. All right Still raining and probably rain all night. I don't mind just so long as it makes spring greener Oh, David Aren't you glad you're here and not any place else in the world? You're certainly in a rhapsodic mood tonight young woman Well Man likes to think that he's the cause for his wife Rhapsodizing not a change in the months months wouldn't mean a thing without the man though Especially April Mrs. Norton Are you professing affection for this poor dilapidated unworthy server that's much too forward much Kiss me begging for a kiss isn't forward. I suppose not a bit. It's only human. Oh It's only wonderful being human You sleepy Good we can Hey, what's my listen don't reach for that paper. Why not you don't want to read now Who says I don't I says whenever you don't feel like reading nobody else in the whole world is allowed to read about time You found that out. I found it out a long time ago. I was trying to forget Well, I'll even tell you why you don't want to read. All right. Go ahead cause you want to go for a walk No, I do you want to put on your glosses and your raincoat your rain hat and go for a walk I do yes You want to walk with me in the rain to the top of the hill Across the meadow and down to the brook and back around by the barn. I do you do don't you Come to think of it. I do Oh Feels good. You like the rain drinking down your neck. I love it and slush to my knees The only trouble with rain is the city I agree I mean when you're dressed right and you don't have to look as if you're going to the opera then walking in the rain is wonderful I know what you meant Wouldn't you hate being married to a woman who didn't like it? No, but not only hate it. I would abhor it Abhor It's a delicious word. You like remind me use it sometimes It's really dark out. Stay careful. Don't trip. I never trip You trip this time that was a stumble We're here Say David, I don't think it's raining as much on top of the hill as it is at the bottom At least it feels that way. Of course Why of course well, the drops haven't fallen so far So they hit less hard so it feels like less rain. Oh, you're so clever Come here under the walnut tree that old tree. It wouldn't keep a sparrow dry. Well, you're not a sparrow. So come on David come on if I were a sparrow, I would be sparrow pecked love this silly walnut tree Remember what a fight we had in mr. Tucker over it. I don't think it's really walnut I don't want to hear Always be a walnut to me and you will always be a plain nut to me. I knew you were going to say that I love this tree like a walnut more than that I I think I love it because fighting over it was the first thing that made me start to feel as if I Wanted to own this farm. Oh, you liked was the fight. You didn't want to be jipped. Well at first, but Then it grew And the tree itself became important and then the brook itself and then the lower pasture itself till a whole farm Do you know David? I'm not sure I think I suspected it, but didn't want to know I was a fraud. Yep fraud Still are you a sweet darling? You didn't say anything. You just left me to trash it out myself and you won I um, I knew you would yes. I won but with your faith not mine It was a whole year ago Almost exactly a year Seems longer Seems shorter too You uh, you sorry? Never David All this rain I can't see the nose on my face. You need a windshield wiper cold me perfect You too But it's time. I think you've had enough rain. Oh, no, no not yet Oh, David. I wish I could see the house All I can see is a little light If it were on the other side of an ocean Lights downstairs Mama must have gone to sleep It's nice to think of her in the house Nice to think of you in the house too Come on David, it walks so fast. Well, come on. You're dawdling. Of course. I'm dawdling. I don't want to go in The rain's so warm so sweet. Well, then let's stop by the bar and take a look at the animal Now that is a good idea. Hey, watch out for the puddle Ah I stepped right in. I certainly did and flashed it all over me clumsy On the contrary perfect aim Oh, David Do all barn doors squeak as pretty as ours does a fatuous remark if I ever heard one Wasn't it though? Entrenched David Didn't tell me majesty was back. Yeah, she came back this afternoon. Nobody told me Well, is she pregnant? She hasn't told me Well, you can't wait for that to find out. I guess I'll have to Well, maybe you can but I can't. Yeah. Well, what do you propose to do propose to talk to her like a mother? I see a good farmer should certainly be able to tell when his own call is with calf Come on quick She'll be justice with calf in two minutes as she is now. I want to close the door To love the smell of a barn it ought to be bottled Ruby, hello Ruby. You still awake? Oh such a lovely pig. Ruby is with calf. All right. Just look at her Oh any day now? Yeah, any and a good litter too Oh, I love it This barn is getting just like a maternity ward without all the pampering and the fuss Animals really are superior They go around having babies all the time as if we're perfectly normal. It is I know It's just that ruby and majesty make me feel as if I weren't doing my fair share It does bobby and No prospects Hey, look abner has his head under his wing. Yeah, you woke him up. Oh, I'm sorry abner sleep later in the morning instead Here we are majesty Hello there. Well, it's good to have her back in the barn, isn't it? But the heifers, mr. Two. Yeah Well, David, what do you think you mean about yes about I told you it's too early to tell nonsense Majesty you and I are going to have a little chat So tell me all Now lovely girl just look at me with those deep brown eyes David what? Yes, yes, what? She's going to oh, you can't tell I certainly can I looked her in the eye The eye has nothing to do with it has so Yes, majesty's pregnant. I know you use tea leaves. No, they're not necessary It's just something one woman knows about another woman It's all you're pretty sure of yourself very Sweet dreams majesty Congratulations. Now how about going back to the house? I'm ready It really belongs to us animals and all It's almost too much not if you know it life's very generous Majesty's going to have a calf ruby piglets Goes on and on doesn't it? Yeah, it's still raining now this time watch out for the puddles No, David In a way, it's not even so terrible about dying Spring always comes again Majesty's heffero have a heifer She'll go on Will have been part of it Our children will have children They'll go on Our same trees will stand The land we walk on will be here For the end of time Yes It's almost as if a person Never died, isn't it? Not if a person Really shook hands with life I really never knew until now Terrible part must be not being born I'd hate not to have been born I'd hate you not to have been born too You would very much What a stroke of luck we were born at the same time darling We could so easily have missed each other By centuries Not a chance darling David oh darling There's nothing I could kiss in the rain The parts of claudia and david on this program were played by kathryn bard and paul crab tree And the entire production is supervised and directed by william brown maloney During the day when you take time out from housework to listen to a radio program In the evening when the family gathers to hear a show together You'll find that good entertainment is even better when you listen refreshed with ice cold coca-cola When there's a case of coke on hand and plenty of bottles cooling in the refrigerator The pause that refreshes is only half a minute away at any time With today's episode the current series of claudia presentations on the air come to an end Claudia and david and all the members of the cast and your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola And all of us who've been with the presentation of the show would like to thank all of you who've listened to it so faithfully We leave you with sincere regret and with the hope that we shall someday meet again In the meantime, this is joe king saying Whoever you are whatever you do wherever you may be When you think of refreshment think of coca-cola Or coca-cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes and ice cold coca-cola is everywhere