 Your Coca-Cola bottler presents Claudia based on the famous play and novels by Rose Franken Brought to you transcribed Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself. Have a coke and now Claudia Yes, Claudia my poor Mama, where is the rock? How do I know where did you put the rock salt? Let me see. I think the rock salt's in the pantry Roger. I'll come and get it I have the ice all broken up put in the freezer. All I need now is a rock salt Sweet mommy's having the best time making the ice cream if his work is any indication We'll all have the best time eating it Claudia. Give me that knife. Yeah, right away mama I'm curling the radishes and so I found the rock salt. How is the turkey coming along mrs. Brown? Coming along beautifully, mr. Killian good am I allowed to look you are not oh the price of being hired help I'm not even allowed to look for my purpose What's the look Roger when in a few minutes you can have a taste Claudia that knife please you're just waving it around All right here by the way, how is the turkey mama? You're not allowed to look either. What the household? Have you finished setting the table? I got the table. I got sidetracked eating the nuts our wager love nuts in the shell There's such a challenge Yeah, mom. Aren't you glad we gave fritz and birth of the day all delighted if everybody would kindly get themselves lost Bring in the large platter when you come back in How many large platters do you have for heaven's sake? How's the turkey coming mother of mine you too, David? I too what the latest bulletin the turkey is coming along fine I'll see that he continues so where is everybody in my hair what I mean Roger's on the back porch cranking the ice cream. Oh, Claudia's in the dining room pilfering nuts Julia's upstairs dressing the baby and thank goodness for the moment. I am left alone Now anything I can do to help. Yes get back into the living room. Mm-hmm. These radishes look tasty Don't you dare touch now scat David go on out of here Thanksgiving dinner's woman's work. Well, remember call me if you need me Just leave it there on the table. Oh, what a beautiful day for Thanksgiving. I could eat a house save your appetite He's a very large turkey mommy. You're such a realist nicely. What can I do to help go and keep your husband company? Well, pass me that spoon first. Yep. Here it is No, this is quite becoming do you Mrs. Brown what is being cooked to a house full Yes, just quite the coming even to the frilly apron under your chin. I hate frills Remember if you ever looking for a job as a chief cook and bottle washer, you can ring my doorbell Thank you so much, but after today, I abdicate Hustle and bustle. Hello Julia body all dressed my nephew is all dressed like Hartley's bringing him down And I thought we'd put him in the sunny Bay window in the dining room No, what can I do to help Mrs. Brown? Not a thing. Thank you. Mrs. Norton. Tell me confidentially. How is the turkey coming? Very nicely. Thank you. Oh What a gorgeous smell. Yeah, give me that butter. Claudia. I'll roll it in little balls. I hear your idea Oh, in that drawer, I guess I'll finish the radishes Well, how's the turkey coming lady? I wish he could speak for himself. He's coming along fine. Mr. Norton really fine And good baby down hot and sleeping for that. Do I get a look at the festive burger? No, no, I can hardly wait till dinner How much longer? Well, just about Pardon me, but I'd like to get to the scene. Hello there. I'm good to see you Kelly. Pardon me Oh, thank you, I'm sorry, excuse me, but it's time for dinner. Shouldn't we put the rolls in the oven? I can't get around the table. Oh, thank you Excuse me, but I must get into the oven. I must Excuse me, Roger, but he's getting a little crowded, isn't it? Oh, well, there isn't anybody else expected it Mr. Tucker No, you're just on time, you know everybody I reckon I do if I don't have shown will greetings all Come on and make yourself at home, Mr. Tucker. I don't you all want to go into the living room. I'll call Oh heavens. No, I'd much rather help. Oh, I need one for the ice cream I've never seen so many horses in one Given in one kitchen I'm gonna get yourself down the dining room and relax my gums for chewing Come on all of you clear out Potatoes not Here comes David with the turkey and some credit rating No insults met ma'am, but I was talking about the birds You all helped it was a little like cooking in a subway rush, but I liked it and thanks for the help Here we go. Mr. Bird. Here we go. Oh my this is nice. I don't remember anything so nice in a long time Do I even last year was different? It is a lot different this year. I I've got so much more. Yep That's where it is. Yes indeedy up to a certain point in your life every year things grow and cumulate Is it get more family get more friends? We couldn't have any better friends. Thanks. Given table gets itself longer and longer Yep, then then comes kind of a turning point in every year when you gather yourselves together the old family smaller Got fewer the old friends left that's life. I'm afraid. Yeah table gets itself short again So a life she says that's what is grown and fallen away and then grown again Well, we'll all be here a long time together There'll be a lot more of us to wait and see darn tootin. I'll wait as long as the kin But I remember a heap of Thanksgiving's I do now you remember a heap more to I remember 86 up Well, you always tells it the same way mind your manners son Counting all of them when I was sleeping like young master not in there not knowing what all the shooting was about One year. There was good bit to be thankful for Well stacked smokehouse healthy season good crop Then there was seven years where he had to scrape pretty sharp for something to be thankful for and when the world seemed a pretty Niggardly place to wish on to a friend. Yeah, it's a pretty sorry world today. It's funny But there are the years I remember best well things even out and all and all I'd say it Weren't so much for me to complain about Well, how are you carving son? He's doing very well. I'm sitting here chattering like a star So you keep on talking and are carving and you keep on chattering mr. Tucker. Yes. Yes, I'll keep it up Nothing. I enjoy better. Oh Dolly, I wish what are you wishing now? Mrs. No, I wish Bobby'd wake up. There's so much Missing sleeping away in the window now. Let Kim sleep. Mrs. Norton. He'll wake up soon enough Besides he ain't so different from a lot of folks years and years older than him who go through their whole lives with their eyes shut All the most important things going on the world's just fussing with them kind of folks Yeah, you know somehow listening you talk mr. Tucker I feel as if there's this were my first Thanksgiving in a way Claudia. Maybe it is You're right, Roger. Maybe it is maybe the secret is that each Thanksgiving should feel like the first it is your first Thanksgiving in New England and it's y'all that shouldn't have anything to do with the feelings should have mr. Tucker Well, you're first in the house your first in New England. It's your first all right is I don't mean that snooty But when you're in this part of the country, you're in the hub right at the heart of things when comes to celebrate and with a goblin But in a moment, mr. Tucker is going to tell us that he remembers that first Thanksgiving day and I do with that Thanksgiving is over 200 years old you said you were only 86 that's correct Then how can you possibly remember? Well, I well some things you remember in your head, mr. Killian Others you remember into your bones in your bones. Yep in your bones I I got a little marrow in my bones Ditch back to them pilgrim fathers what celebrated the first Thanksgiving if you call it celebrated I I Just remember just about what was like I do. Oh come on. Tell us mr. Tucker. What David finishes carving. Well as I see it Through my bones that is wasn't much like this. No dining room tables set heavy with vitals No house all warmed up for comfort. No bangles on ladies arms or silks for the dresses Yeah, by the time ended November come around them pilgrim fathers felt the nipping and the hunger and cold about them But there wasn't but a but a threadbare fuel of them left clustered together for warmth and courage They had the courage all right. Yep. They had that they had faith alongside of it Strong kind it was to the faith that things it shape around and that God had see him through the snow and the ice and the hunger I wish I had that kind of faith. You might have one you needed is bad ma'am. I Wonder mighty little else. Those folks had but face matter of fact still Come around the end in November them pilgrims thought it was about time to thank God for his bounty They figured they hold him a heap of gratitude for the health The freedom and for being allowed to live so long in their bitter wilderness if you could call that living living it was for them Well, they decided if they was to thank God for his generosity They should celebrate it with feasting, but the cupboard was sparse smoke house emptied the grain in the barn running low And the winter loomed along There just wasn't nothing around to celebrate with but they had the thought so they'd find the way Kind of feisty versey with us ain't it? This knife is dull So I was saying they set into the woods to kill ourselves a meal sure they expected They'd be deer around or even wild bear they'd have real good meat for the feast But wasn't that kind of a year no no just just wasn't that kind of a year that year The animals had disappeared into the forest or else died of hunger in the thicket. That's the way a feast or a famine And this this this one this one there sure did look like a famine Well, they hunted and they hunted and finally come toward the middle of the week one man He kills his self a beast. Yes, he did kill the beast no deer no bear no meat But only a wild feathered bird Stringy and lean and tough with age But something to eat so he he weren't much to be proud of The bird was brought into the village Pilgrims sprung into action. We're springing into action today Yes, just like here this morning with all you pitching in on dinner So did them stubborn pilgrims pitch in the bird was bled feathered and roasted Along with there's few dusty potatoes and beans One family found some forgotten nuts another an apple in the barrel bottom All put together the pilgrims imagined they had a feast Slim pickings we'd call it, but to their crying stomachs a feast Then when the bird was brought in from the fire and set up in the table to eat the pilgrim fathers and mothers and children stood up around him and said God We thank you. We thank you for our freedom for our home For our health for all the blessings you do bestow upon us Most especially dear god We do thank you for this here turkey And friends you can take it from me that this here pilgrim turkey He wasn't half as juicy and fat and pretty as this here one sitting right here So serve him up. Mr. Norton. We'll set our gums to chew in our hearts Drumstick Your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola and the cast of Claudia join you in giving thanks for the bounty We enjoy here in America and they wish you one and all a pleasant Thanksgiving day quite a story old man Tucker told wasn't it mr. King yes quite a story indeed mr. Killian and true as if he'd been there himself But one thing he said stuck with me more than anything else. I wonder if it's what I'm thinking He said that first the pilgrims had the thought and then the turkey they wanted to say thanks And then they found the way to say it that's exactly what I was thinking We today are so liable to say thanks eat our turkey you celebrate Thanksgiving And then at the very end stop to realize that we have a great deal to say thanks for yes I'm glad I was there even if there hadn't been a bone to eat But there was a bone to eat oh don't remind me I quite lost my head I I took twice of everything and now I feel very sorry I did you don't really feel sorry though Don't I I shall never eat again never sound familiar and tomorrow you'll see that you've made that bow in very good company And that you'll even break it in very good company. Well, I I'm not convinced. Oh dear. I'm off to take a nap. Happy Thanksgiving, mr. King Every day Monday through Friday. Claudia comes to you transcribed with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola So listen again tomorrow at the same time And now this is Joe King saying or of war and Remember 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 This broadcast of Claudia was supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney And now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola