 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 Here Out of here behind the barn. What do you want Claudia? Well, what do you want? Nothing. You mean you go ballering around the countryside as if I were a lost cow here bossy here bossy here boss And when you find me you don't want anything. You're very bossy and you're a very nice bossy Anyway, you've got your metaphors mixed, you know. Oh, I have that by the way, what do they call a bull for short bully? No darling. I really didn't want anything. I just wanted to know where you were and what you're doing You've been asking a lot of questions, but to answer the last one and not doing anything Well, don't overdo it. Look you and mom. I have to start treating me like a couple of nursemaids with an errant child Just pretend that I've grown up and know how to take care of myself. I'll pretend that you don't Don't what? Don't know how to take care of yourself. I haven't been doing anything else for a couple of weeks Any day now you're gonna get fed up and start doing something foolish and I intend to be on hand to stop Something foolish like what for anything foolish like mending the past your fence for instance That gives me an idea. It's no good of an idea. I look Claudia. I was in an automobile accident, but I'm all well I'm all patched up now. I refuse to be made an envelope a Hammer and a pocket full of staples and renailing the down wire on the fence. It's not hard work And I am going to do it no matter what you say. I won't say anything But I think it's foolish. Oh Tell me one reason why you think it's foolish. Oh, let me see Because the wire doesn't need nailing up and have our cows how singular and yet to be I stand corrected You have our singular cow wandering all over the countryside no sir You were with me yesterday when we walked out here and looked at the places the wire is down You looked at the wire darling, but I looked at the look in your eye and And what and I told Fritz to mend the fence he fixed it yesterday afternoon. I Wish that Bobby could walk you've done it Done what out non sequitur'd me? That's the word isn't it? You're always saying that I say things that don't hang together and follow and make sense There's absolutely no connection between fixing a fence and Bobby walk. That's what you think If if Bobby could walk he could get himself into all kinds of wonderful trouble And you'd have your hands so full worrying about him. You wouldn't have any time for me. That's what you think always have David do we have any bears or wild animals? Come again, I'm not following you. I said do we have any bears or wild animals around here? I'm just asking a simple question a simple question out of the blue simple question out of those elder thickets on the hillside over there something moved Where I Don't see anything It's bigger than a rabbit or a woodchuck and it's not as big as a cow. So it must be a bear No, I don't see anything I Suppose you didn't hear anything. Yes, I heard something and that hunter is going to hear something from me David your nostrils are wide. I don't think it's why you don't think what's why dr. Barry doesn't want you to over exert and Whoever fired that shot has a gun and he's done his last shooting on this place. Hey Hey, you up there on the hill. Come over here. I want to talk to you city pot hunters shooting everything that moves Breaking down fences starting fires. When do I get him? I'll give him a piece of my mind There he is darling. Where I don't see him. See just to the right of that thickest. Oh Guess you won't have to give him a very big piece of your mind blistering Why won't I because he isn't a very big hunter? Oh He is a sort of a half pint Nimrod And I know him my old fishing companion Jimmy Hey Jimmy Jimmy Hey, come over here a minute. Don't blister him too hard David Just show him off the place and tell him he has to hunt someplace else. This land is posted That's not so easy You see Jimmy as a neighbor a neighbor or not you wanted this to be a place where animals weren't hunted You don't hunt yourself you posted the land Jimmy can read and I guess he didn't think these signs applied to him Well, he is just a child when he comes over you can sort of explain it to him that he's a child No, you goop that he isn't to go hunting Afraid he wouldn't understand there is very little that that little boy doesn't understand Jimmy is a smart type Well, look if you're afraid to tell a little boy to scat and skadoodle off the place I'm not I don't like the idea of things being killed on our place and and neither do you What would you say to him? Well, I'd say Jimmy mr. Norton and I don't want any shooting on this place We don't do any shooting and we don't want anyone else to do any shooting that is why we put out the no trespassing sign Trespassing Now that's a that's a pretty hard word for a boy to understand and I'll spell it out for him It means private property. It means stay out That's a pretty hard idea for a neighbor to understand But we own the land. It's ours. We pay taxes so we can that's what the deed says Claudia Norton and David Norton all that certain peace parcel attractive land To have and to hold and fees simple in language simple That's a lot of legal balder dad that it is It means we have certain rights, but honestly men make simple things so complicated It means we either own the land or we don't know what means that all right But I'm afraid that there are certain rights of others that the deed doesn't mention You see all the people who live about us they and their families have lived here for generations Mrs. Norton hello hunting Jimmy. Yeah Do you get anything? Well almost that's good. No, it would have been better if I'd hit him. I close my eyes I guess I got a bad habit of closing my eyes. I didn't exactly mean that when I said that's good I know what Mrs. Norton meant Jimmy was that it must have been a pretty good shot to almost get him But you didn't get him by the way, what was it that you almost got? Woodchuck. Woodchuck. I mean one of those funny little brown things that Looked like bears and sit up and hold its paws together and wiggles its nose and Falls backwards down its hole when you make a noise. That's a fairly accurate description of a woodchuck You really wanted to kill it Jimmy Woodchuck's is bad Mrs. Norton Little brown things like that. Sure are they raise all heck with new seeded fields The mr. One had a cow last year what stepped in one and broke his leg I mean her leg, but Jimmy mr. Norton and I haven't any cows yet David. Are you with me or against me? Oh, I'm standing on the sidelines. Well Anyway, a car has to take his chances her chances and we haven't got any new planted field yet Now what Mrs. Norton is trying to say Jimmy is that she didn't know woodchucks were so dangerous what I meant to say that's a That's a wonderful rifle. What is it? It's a Stevens a single-shot Stevens. It's all right That's great. If it was a repeater. I would have got that woodchuck Yeah, a lot of big games been shot with a single-shot rifle. That's all the pioneers in this country had you know Only with a single shot you have to be good, you know, there's one chance more sporting David, don't you think that just coming to the point Claudia guns are man's business I'll explain all this to you later This is a pretty old gun mr. Norton. Well, they're the best kind who'd want a brand new gun guns like a pipe It isn't much good until it's been broken in gee you really know about guns. Don't you you're a hunter, too I've been shooting. What for what did you shoot mr. Norton? dear David, how could you have Mrs. Norton? You're just like my mom. I guess women just really don't understand about Hunting do they mr. Norton? How many did you shoot just one? I I Didn't have to shoot anymore. Did you have to shoot that one? I thought I did I Guess that's part of the growing up a man has to do gee Did you ever shoot any really big game mr. Norton? No Come to think of it. I I guess I have what kind Biggest kind there is I guess gee that must have been sport No, no, it wasn't sport But it had to be done They were sort of dangerous. There ain't that kind of hunting around here. No Had to take a pretty long trip and it took us quite a while We were a long time coming back Those of us who did come back Gosh, I'd like to go on a real hunting trip like that. I hope you never have to Jimmy I hope you do all the hunting of your life on the fields and hills of Eastbrook Sometimes it's very necessary to There was a group of farmers who left their fields one summer afternoon and marched toward Concord They took their hunting rifles, but man don't have to kill there must be better way. They are Some day all men may use them, but until they do Look this country has never fought an unjust war and it's never lost one And they were fought not by professional soldiers, but by men who were willing to die that others might be free Men who had learned his kids even across these acres of ours How to handle the only weapons that can oppose the power of evil and oppression in the world This here gun was my dad's gun when he was growing up. Ma finally said I could use it She won't let me use his other guns though. My dad was a fine shot. He was in the army, you know Yes, I know He must have been a fine soldier Your dad must have been a fine man to Jimmy you've left you such a rich memory of love My dad was the best man there is He would have taken me hunting with him. He always said when I grew up he would He would have learned me all about shooting Closing your eyes when you pull the trigger That that isn't good is it? It's the worst thing there is Jimmy No, I have an idea that your father it's sort of like to think that When you went out hunting you knew how really knew how How am I going to learn? Jimmy, I have an idea that if you ask David He might take you out hunting tomorrow morning. Gee, Mrs. Norton. I think you're swell Gee, Mrs. Norton, I Think you're swell too When you snatch a few minutes during housework to listen to the radio you can make those minutes even more enjoyable Go to the refrigerator get a nice cold bottle of Coca-Cola and refresh while you listen Keep coke on hand and you can always listen refresh. Hi, Mr. King. Hi, Jimmy Hey, it wouldn't be that I saw you carrying that rifle across the Norton's fields. They just posted their land You know that doesn't apply to neighbors the Norton's ain't like city folks or summer people. There's a difference sure is The Norton's belong they're neighbors. That's a nice distinction and I think I get it By the way, did you get anything? Almost but I close my eyes But mr. Norton's gonna show me show me how to about shooting Him and I were going hunting tomorrow. Yeah, she wish I could go along Maybe I might But say what does Claudia think of your hunting? Oh, you know women at first. She didn't seem to like it so much And then she came around and said all right Women aren't so bad underneath and next to my mom. I guess Mrs. Norton's better than most a very profound observation Jimmy. Well, I'll be seeing you maybe tomorrow Now as I was about to say 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 a bar and remember Whoever you are, whatever you do, wherever you may be When you think of refreshment think of Coca-Cola For 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