 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 Working Why don't I sound oh, I don't know humming and fidgeting around you just don't sound like a man working Besides you're awfully willing to be interrupted that I was interrupted in my train of thought does not indicate willingness It merely indicates that I was interrupted What do you want nothing? Then you weren't working you were only thinking so I really didn't interrupt your working. I was thinking about working. Oh It's a beautiful day, isn't it a wonderful day. There are clouds over on the horizon though might rain later Do you think so that'll be perfect? We've got you doing the wash. It'll be perfect for docks for trout, too That sounds silly. What difference would it make to a trout whether it rains or doesn't rain? He'll be wet in either case. It seems to make a great difference to the big ones Just before rain they sort of sense it and stare around and sometimes you can catch the wily old fellas Ugg Well, and your desk there. I thought it was alive. Oh, it's a fishing fly. It's a quill Gordon You mean there are different kinds. Well, they're about six hundred different kind And this particular one would be just about perfect for the smart old trout of Roger and I came on the other day He was having absolutely none of us. We used every trick of the trade on him and they didn't work He nuzzled Roger's fly and spit it five feet in the air. He just swished his tail at me This sounds very personal. It is. I always thought men just went fishing for fish not just one particular fish Do you know what I think I? Haven't the foggiest idea what you I am thinking that you are wasting your time with that far away look in your eye and the Biff McDonald Quill Gordon, there's no fly called a Biff McDonald Although the name sounds like it might be a good idea now. You're interrupting me I was just about to tell you what I was thinking you told me you said I was wasting my time Oh, you interrupted me before I got finished. Oh, sorry what I was trying to say is You're wasting your time trying to work in my candid opinion You ought to go fishing. Oh But my work do it later get the behind me Satan and push No, I really think you should go You do. Yep. I do well Since you insist I insist but it's much against my will Come here. Why because I want to kiss you Mm-hmm as much to be said for trout fishing Come with me and be my love and we will some new pleasures prove on golden sands by Crystal Brooks With silken lines and silver hooks. That's nice And done thought so too. Who's and done? She was the beloved wife of John done and one summer morning about 330 years ago. She prevailed upon John to go fishing. Oh Very much against his will to Dan go to that the poet did not tell us but he asked her come with me and be my love Well, I'm waiting Would you really like to go? I'll be very quiet. All right. It's a deal and on a bright summer's morning in 1948 Claudia the beloved wife of David. We're the fishing Oh fishing we will go a fishing we will go a high over the Dario a fishing we will go fishing we will go The pool's just beyond that clump of thicket over there. It's like stalking big game in Africa There's more to this and meets the eye, isn't there? And the less that meets the trout's eye the better Just over there around that bush. I see see the glen of water right to there. Oh Do you see what I see a barefoot boy the fish pole and a string of fish Maybe he won't mind you're fishing the poor women Fisherman's ethics the pool belongs to the first man on it ethics and a 12-year-old boy Ethics have to begin at some age and life of man. So they do if I'd been here first. He would have respected my priority Or you'd have taught him some ethics Anyways, probably banged around so much the fish wouldn't bite again today This could be a tender point of ethics. Oh, hello son. How's luck? I caught this year's string quite a collection Just about one of everything there is Sunfish a perch a chub on a bullhead you didn't catch all of them here Did you know I caught these little pond across the road and what do you expect to catch here? I'm not expecting I've got over-expected so young to be disillusioned. There's trout in this here pool really There's one great big one. He's a sock doll. It's you don't say he's all of 15 inches I'll go along with you on that, but I bet he's close to 20, you know Oh, my husband knows him intimately. I don't know him as well as you do I discovered him last year. I come here all the time, but nobody's caught him I know two men who spent an afternoon and didn't catch it You don't take a real fisherman to catch this here fish Experiences brought me to agree with you But you were trying I just come here to look at him, but you're fishing just on the chance No, I got a worm down there, but I'm not fishing for that big fish I might catch some silly small trout, but that big fella he won't be took on no worm. He won't a Uh, what would you suggest for the big fella you wait around a minute or two and he'll show you what I would suggest There's a hatch on a hat a hatch of flies lady. Oh, maybe with just a hint of blue in them, huh? Just a little blue like Like this one maybe she ain't that pretty that's a humdinger of a fly mister a humdinger to catch a sock It'll take more than just having a fly before you have this fish This year flight have to float down through the air without a splash on the water And if it was dropped just right that's a pretty big if son This is a pretty big fish and if it was just right he wouldn't take it like no ordinary trout He'd look at it and size it up and then just for the heck of it because he ain't hungry He flip up through the water and take it from on top. I can see you know this particular trout pretty well Uh Just where would you put this fly just over there at the edge of that slack water beyond the yeti You just watch there. He's there. All right. There's a swirl on the water. That's him lady. Now wait There he is. There he was real sock dollars shoulders on him like a steer Go ahead mister try and catch him. You sound like you hoped I wouldn't son I hope you do if you catch him you're a good fisherman and that fish belongs to a good fisherman My dad would have caught this fish Your dad Yeah, he was sort of hurt in the war and he died hmm and not having a fly rod a Fly line nine foot of very fine leader and a quill Gordon This trout is sort of out of your reach Even if I did have I I wouldn't catch that there fish. You mean you wouldn't want to I mean I wouldn't have the know-how to cast it just right now my father he Hey, mister, what are you doing breaking the hook off that fly? You won't catch no fish without a hook on your fly. I've got another fly just now I'm getting ready to catch some know-how some what some know-how Come on. Let's get back here in this matter out of sight of the pool You're going to cast from way back there. Yep We're going to do some casting Some dry casting and I've broken the hook off so we don't snag it up in the grass in the grass There is method and shall I call it my madness she mister this rod is a humdinger That's right a first-class humdinger. She is you're something of a first-class humdinger yourself now Come on back here in the field, son. Okay. Now hold up the rod this way like this. Yeah, get it with this hand Now bring it back not too far not too far All right darling now come on son. Let's get back to the pool. I'll put the fly on with a tent of blue Now now put your fly behind that Eddie All right. All right, son Now make your cast look mister. Maybe you better do it only a real fisherman is going to catch this fish Well, if you catch him that'll make you a real fisherman. Well, all right Here goes. All right. Let it go now just like I showed you I did it. You never make a better cast now. Don't move that fly easy now taking a little of slack line That's it. That's it pull it in just a little bit more. It's now or never It's not and it's now Strike strike. He's on. What do I do? Keep your line talk. Don't give him any slack. Okay. Now. He's turning He's hanging this way now. Now reel him in. Oh, huh? Come on reel him in. That's it. Take your time Don't get nervous now. Don't get nervous and watch him dance on his tail He's huge. He's a great granddaddy of them all now in with him. Come on. Bring him in bring him in slowly Now don't get nervous son. Don't get nervous now. Now. Don't give him a second win. That's that's a boy That's a boy now into the shore. Come on. Bring him in there. Bring it over here over here for the net Get him. Gee. I get him. Well Well fisherman you caught yourself a fish He's better than 20 inches. Gee. I couldn't say it more perfectly myself. Gee I show the fellas down at the corner store. We'd like show my mom. Gee. Thanks, mister You're a real sport. My dad never caught a fish as big as this You're quite a sportsman yourself son and with that fish that fish you can prove it to anybody Your dad would have been proud of you. I can't wait to show it now You run along now and show it to your friends and to your mom I don't forget what you showed me my own dad couldn't show me how better. Gee. Thanks, mister Are you going to fish some more David? No, I think the fishing's done for the day. There are other fish in the stream None quite so big. He was the one I was after just let that little boy catch it. Well, I had my fun out of it The fish really belonged to him. He discovered him over a year ago. I discovered something a year ago, David What I discovered the most wonderful father my son could ever have I Never really knew how wonderful until I saw you with that little boy Darling that sort of makes up for the trout. Kiss me again. I'll tell you something else about my son's father Lady consider yourself kiss. He's a humdinger of a sock dollager. Oh According we did go According we did go Dario Remember the days when people heat the table high with food and the housewife had to work the live-long day in order to prepare for guests Well, I think there's more than one thing to be said in favor of today's casual entertaining It's simple. It's informal and everyone seems to better off for it including the hostess and her pocketbook Nowadays you just go to the refrigerator take out a tray full of coke open the bottles and there you are and Anytime any place coke brings you the pause that refreshes. Hi there, Mr. King. Well, hello son Say that's a pretty big fish you've got there. That's a trout, Mr. King Did you catch him all by yourself? Well? I had little help you might say that that fellow who just moved up here Mr. Norton let me use his rod and his fly and he taught me some know-how and What and together we sort of caught this fish Well, that's pretty generous of you to share the credit for a fish like that I guess he taught me something about being generous to mr. King. He could have caught this fish by himself But he let me do it Say mr. King. I heard mrs. Norton say something about their son He wouldn't be about my age would he well in a manner of speaking their son isn't yet But he'll be along in a week or two But before he gets here David is gonna have some real boy trouble on his hands young Jeffrey killian His partner son has some troubles bigger even in that fish of yours. Oh, nothing could be bigger than this fish Well, they seem bigger to him hang around next week. Maybe you'll meet young Roger. Okay, mr. King I'll be seeing you. Bye son. I'll be seeing you 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 Monday 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 These programs star Catherine Bard is Claudia and Paul Crabtree is David and the entire production is supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney And now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola