 Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia 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 What's the matter with you two? Why nothing's the matter with us too mama. Stop pretending. You can't fool your own mother I know my chicks is anything matters you chick. No, nothing's matters me to fool all you like even fool each other She can't can't fool me. Oh, she's such a smarty. Isn't she David like a wise old owl Mm-hmm peering at us over the rim of her glasses wouldn't be mama without the rim of her glasses Would it or her knitting needles? David 9 o'clock still too early to go to bed Honestly, it takes such a long time getting late sometimes. Yeah, if you'd stop mooning we'd get late earlier David She making sense. Mm-hmm world of I am not Mooning my call walking around the room looking like a lost sheep hanging out of a window like a weeping willow sighing like a sick balloon moving Your definition might be different, but I can't help that David you feel like a sick balloon Now don't deflate mama. Oh, sorry mama. If she has a feeling let her have it I'm reading my book and there's nothing despondent about a man reading a book. Mm-hmm. Your pipe's not lit So there's something very despondent about a man whose pipe isn't lit and doesn't even know it Mrs. Sherlock Holmes I even know what you're despondent about Secretive as you may be oh tell us mama tell us mama It's that ridiculous piece of land across the road what's ridiculous about it you David She's calling us names Go on mama just because that piece of land was sold to somebody else You two have been behaving like you lost your best friends not sheer nonsense. You ought to be happy and grateful Well, it's a terrible thing to advise people who've lost their best friend, Mrs. Brown. Why you couldn't afford that piece of land No, you're telling I we couldn't afford it any more than a trip to the moon About all we can afford is a toothpick still we were going to buy it Aren't we then you ought to be dancing in the streets? You've been saved by an unknown friend Whoever it was that bought that piece of land ahead of you deserved your everlasting gratitude We wanted to buy it Precisely and you would have had to to if you hadn't been left behind Terrible about buying it even if you can't afford it Oh, I'm only in favor of you wanting to buy it, but I still think you're very lucky and deep down inside No, you're lucky too. I don't think so at all. We're not any richer for it. Of course you are. Of course we are not Look mama, we were going to buy that land with money that wasn't ours Well, then we'd be richer by the land so no, we haven't got the land We haven't got the money that isn't ours So we're a lot poorer than we would have been if we bought it Would you say that again? She's perfectly simple We could have saved a lot of money buying that land Did uh, did you teach your mathematics mrs. Brown? No, I think Einstein taught her now Maybe he'd like to take a few lessons from her himself. Yes, I'll write to him in the morning I don't mind. I'd be glad. What time is it now? It is still early. I wouldn't mind going to bed early if there's nothing else to do Do you? Oh Look at it Claudia You're getting that wind of pain all cloudy standing with your nose against it like that Look at it mama acres and acres and acres and the moon shining on it Look at that scraggly tree Perfect tree for a swing. You know you have a perfect tree for a swing Tucker here Oh for him's sake. I wonder what he wants at this hour. Come on in mr. Tucker. I'm already in son Hope uh, we'll find disturbing anything. No, no There will be a pleasant relief to see a cheerful face mr. Tucker. Oh, there ain't anything cheerful about my face mrs. Brown Nothing cheerful tall tall tall. Oh, I think you've a very cheerful face mr. Tucker not tonight, ma'am Tonight my face looks like a green apple pie that's been mashed in I'm that sad. Well, what are you so sad about mr. Tucker? Oh, man of my disposition mrs. Norton is always sad when he has his nose onto the ground and ain't sniffed up a scent Say I ain't interrupting nothing. I don't know. We're just talking I have that kind of a look about you like folks who's in the middle of something Nope, we're in the middle of nothing. What uh, scent was your nose trying to pick up mr. Tucker I ain't seen nothing like it son. I've been gone around all day questioning asking snooping heaves dropping and it's still a deep dark secret What's still a deep dark secret? Who has purchased the land across the road? Nobody seems to know. Well, mr. Hankin seemed to know yesterday. That's the first time that old mr. Hankin He don't deserve such a respectful title It's your first time. He's held a secret and I over 30 years and all I can say is it's scurrilius of him That's what it is. It's scurrilius. Well all good lawyers keep secrets mr. Tucker scurrilius are not a good lawyer until now And this is sure a bad time for him to start dang him Well, I I don't know why whoever bought that land wants it to be a secret anyway Whoever bought that land probably doesn't want you to throw knives in his back That's why he's kept it a secret. Well, I've asked everybody the editor of the paper He don't know nothing the councilman. He don't know nothing Matthew Warren. He don't know nothing George Reynolds. He don't know nothing. Nobody knows nothing Well, how do you expect anyone to know anything when you don't know anything mr. Tucker? Hey I know everything dang it. You speak the truth when you say I know everything Yes, and if there would be anybody to know it would be Jared Tucker. Well personally, I suggest we drop the whole matter and forget it Sick and tired of talking about that piece of property across the road I don't know and I don't care who bought it. You don't hey son. I don't want to discuss it any further It's bought and that's that After all what's so important about it. So somebody bought bought the land who might not raise cows or farm his land. So what who cares? So he builds a spanish style stucco house with a swimming pool and eight sunken gardens. So what so I'll tell you what You'll sit here eating your heart out So you'll sit here ticking yourself because you're not a millionaire. So you'll sit here watching our land Contaminated with city folks who haven't got the sense to live decently So that's what mr. Tucker, please stop. Oh, I ain't beefing at you You two young's is all the hope I got for the world. So I ain't beefing at you I'm beefing at myself To have the sense that not to have the sense 40 years ago to buy up this here land Oh, what's the use July says I got a tongue like a snake. You know, maybe she's right. I love snakes. Don't you mama? I think snakes are adorable. Well, just start let you folks know that Well, that there ain't nothing to let you know. Yeah, thanks a lot. Say is that a car pulling up outside? I didn't hear it Well, you wear your hair flat over your ears mama. I heard it Look it is to the car. Is it? Probably somebody lost it is not somebody lost is somebody who knows just where he's coming Well, I'm going upstairs. You stay here mama. If it's a friend of yours. I look a mess So I'm going upstairs. It's a friend of ours. It doesn't matter if you look a mess besides you don't No more unusual. Thank you. Who is it darling? We'll see I thought I'd find you all in bed Is it that man again? It is he david Brown hello tucker the top of the night to you. Well, this is a pleasant surprise Evening mr. Killian Evening mr. Tucker. Well, what brings you up here roger left you at the office at 5 30 I didn't expect to see you so soon. I am a very unpredictable man I am that you thought of you as being unpredictable especially that just proves how unpredictable I am Well, I guess you're out there. Well, I'm leaving. Why so all of a sudden mr. Oh, she's getting crowded here besides I I ain't got no more to say you might have you might think of something Oh, don't go. It's not crowded here. I suspect that mr. Tucker likes to be the star attraction Oh, I don't like to be mr. Killian. I just naturally be Roger why are you walking up and down like that? Oh, was I walking up and down spending the night of course Why not? I was good as invited myself. Didn't I know what are you what are you doing up in these parts? Anyway, hasn't the man a right to come and go as he chooses? No in sense when David, do you think you own Connecticut? No, I don't even own as much of it as I'd like to yep. I'm leaving. I says I's gone I'm a man of my word if there's anything I hate it's a man who stands around on one foot and Since I still got both of mine. Heaven be blessed. I'm leaving. I feel very badly mr. Tucker driving you out into the night looking so despondent. Oh, there ain't nothing despondent about me It's these young ones here who'll be despondent mr. Killian. Really? Well, mr. Tucker has ideas we're in mourning because the land across the road has been sold There ain't mourning exactly but you ain't taking your heels together like a couple frogs Well, neither are you no and that is too bad Something I've always wanted to see was mr. Tucker kicking his feet together Like a frog really Roger Say, how'd you happen to come up this evening? Didn't tell david a word about it. Impulse I just felt like driving up here and Well, the man likes to walk around his grounds once in a while really do have a nice proprietary sense about our farm roger I'm glad well after all I did introduce you to the place. Didn't I? You sure did without you it still be poor deluded city folks. So would I Now you've returned me the favor david What without you I'd probably still be poor deluded city folks myself You know what I can't understand roger is if you you you like coming up here so much as you say you do Well, then why don't you come more often a man can take advantage of his friends just so long and after that he's Well after that he should leave them alone And build his own home. What would you do with a house? I don't know But I'm going to find out where do you think it should be david now on the hill or right near the road That is my house After all With 50 acres to choose from Hmm, you all look like guppies Yes, dear people It is my land my 50 acres of land across the road. Oh, you you bought it. I most certainly did Well, I'll be gold ganged you We we ought to turn feather you we ought what was that? Well You ought torn felly You mean you bought it to build on at a spanish stucco house with swimming pools and So you're going to turn that land into skyscrapers and factories and things like that. We ought to turn feathering. We ought to I won't have it well I am speechless But in the meantime roger Welcome home well, I It feels like home already now mr. Killian before you waste any more time. You're going to plant that land to keep cows Well, I don't know exactly. What would you suggest? You haven't exactly decided. 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