 Your Coca-Cola bottler presents Claudia based on the famous play and novels by Rose Franken Brought to you transcribe 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 David where'd you learn how to milk a cow? I just do what comes to me naturally. Well, you certainly do milk beautifully Not a bit like an architect Just look at the contented look on majesty's face cows always look contented while being milk. Oh darling. You're too much Majesty he does milk beautifully doesn't he? No, that's a C. She's so contented. She doesn't even answer there. We are a girl That's that you mean that's all that's all all right push aside majesty come on over Oh Bucket for yourself second milking today. You're doing fine. Oh too fine Majesty listen can't you can't you dry up a little you have to overdo everything wait a minute. Don't give her any ideas Majesty now don't you think it'd be better to sort of just give us a nice average of say oh Ten quarts a day all year round instead of 20 quarts for a few months, and then nothing at all That is not the way majesty does it David Why don't you teach me how to milk majesty next time? She's all finished now next time next time fritz will be here next time I don't think it looks very difficult milk at all It is a very special skill and talent very say that because you know how and I don't I don't mm-hmm Well, but we better get back to the house here. Give me that pale Honey all this milk Majesty you're a most generous car now put that towel back on the hook would you don't yeah I'll help you pour the milk into one of the cans too. You're getting to be a real dairymaid. Well, I've been watching fritz Yeah, beautiful eyelashes David What's she saying? Oh, she's probably thinking of summer and green grass and daisies and out to pasture with her calf calf sleeping, you know, maybe it's dream Golly, I hope she doesn't start giving us milk soon. No, don't worry Honestly, will you listen to me David complaining because we have too much milk The world is certainly out of balance David I think the wind's blowing up in the barn door, you know, we have to find a way of making it faster The animals will freeze. You know the door is all right Goodbye Ruby you sweet old pig sleep tight sweet dreams You talked to me in exactly the same tone as you talked to that sweet pig. Well, you should be flattered my sweet man Is that you Okay, baby Your housekeeper says you was in the barn. You mean Bertha. Oh, well, I tell her a new title Yeah, I just got through milking majesty. How's she milking since she freshened and you put her heifer on skim milk Beautifully. She's giving upwards of 20 quarts. She's fine cow. You bet your life. She's the best It's a long time between cows like majesty. Yeah, we're just going back to the house. Come on over and say hello to her Oh, she'll love seeing you again, Mr. Tucker. Oh, she won't remember me Oh, she won't remember it was I was responsible for bringing you and her together. No, remember you have Inside dope. I take I don't need inside dope. I just know oh My secret between you two girls who were two mothers David not girl. Are you still girls to me? Cold night out The reason is a duck's foot and winter your barn your barn's warm and sweet. We owe it all to majesty. Take a curtsy magic She knows it's you a friend coming mr. Tucker. Oh, no, ma'am. She don't recognize old Jared Tucker She's just low and because she wants to make a good impression. I'm a handsome codger and she's just a friendly cow Good many weeks for her to start lowing when we came near Looking at you mr. Tucker that cow remembers that you bargained her for us And you don't do a credit mr. Tucker if you don't admit she does what they say girl. They say you'll remember me Well, how you been? Hey, hope you're done. Right, baby. Not Told them what a fine cow you are sang your praises like you was a queen she by and she's done very well by us Mr. Tucker first a half her and now she's flooding us and milk and cream and butter That that'd be the gist to what I come to talk to you about. Oh, but majesty. Yep. I Don't know exactly how to put it mrs. Norton, but I come to talk to you about majesty You you you don't want to buy her from us. Do you I fixed it? So she was sold to you ma'am not for me I know but maybe now you wish you'd Matthew Warren sold her to you mrs. Norton sold her to you for a fair bargain I've seen to that bargain was fair to you it was Now as much as I'd want majesty, I wouldn't take her if you was to give it to me I'm sorry. I should have known you were that kind of person Dave and I've gotten so attached to majesty that I could understand your feeling about it that way, too And wishing you'd bought her for you. Well the way a man feels ain't always the way a man acts worse luck Mr. Tucker if there's anything you need or want all you have to do is say it We're so beholden to you for this cow that you bargained for us to buy that Whatever it is on your mind just speak up. Well, you're fine lad to do business with mr. Norton a man can deal honest with a man like you I Come over to make a proposition Of course, you don't have to accept well I do accept without even hearing what the proposition. Oh, you'll get yourself licked in a deal acting like that son It might even get yourself licked by me now. I'm warning you. Well, I'll take my chances Well funny thing And I'm aiming to close a bargain with Matthew Warren I pull every trick I know of cause you know, he'd slide me out of every red cent I own if he calls Oh, that's that's only the way he acts man can get carried away be the way he acts. Yes, we're coming to your majesty Your dis is curious to know what this is about us as I am aren't you old girl for my wife's sake mr. Tucker What is that can do for you? Well, mr. Norton my Cow's milk productions dropped off. Oh, bless to tell you because I don't care about admitting misfortunes. I Don't like you to think that I ain't a good milk razor. I wouldn't take that It's the way of cows, mr. Norton my cows are kind of slackening up Few of them are with calf a few of them just freshened and rest of them just don't seem to be quite this Enthusiastic as it should be just one of them things, you know, that's just what I sang to David mr. Tucker either they're giving too much or they're giving too little my wife thinks that cows are Undependable all cows can be the most dependable critters there are Especially considering their women, but in spite they're dependable You can always count on cows to run dry when you need a most Starting to feel very guilty David that we are the flood and our neighbor Tucker is the drought Oh, it wouldn't matter much course except I am in the milk business put in a few chosen words I got her out of milk to deliver and I ain't got the milk to deliver. That's about the whole story is Is that all that all Sonya? You don't realize obligations is business and business is cash and cash is money I realized that any milk majesty gives us is yours mr. Tucker, so there's no problem I would not accept her milk, but isn't that what you came over for first things first How many quarts of majesty's milk and cream and butter do you need mrs. No, we certainly don't need all she's giving us David, how many do you think we need? Oh, I'd say five quarts a day be plenty five quarts David we can't drink five quarts. Well, that's including the milk for butter and cream and skim milk. Oh. Oh, I thought you've gone crazy Five quarts that leaves us about 15. We can give you mr. Tucker. I won't accept it as I said what no I Come to make a deal not to accept gift can make a deal with 15 quarts of milk a day I can oh but look mr. Tucker you're our neighbor you've helped us in countless ways and now that we've a chance to help you The least you can do is let us and let us gracefully. I ain't that kind of man. I ain't sweet I ain't kindly ain't no, and I'm proud to never accept in gifts when I don't want to You yank is it you're a hard lot. We're a hard lot to be soft with but being soft with folks ain't no way to be friends with Them I'll buy majesty's milk mr. Norton, but it won't take it from you. No, all right. All right. Have it your way I'll sell it to you for oh 50 cents as much as there is milk is selling for 10 cents court Ten cents a quarter ten cents. Well last week. I paid 26. That's in the bottle at the grocer clock What happens to the 16 cents in between middleman? Hmm. Well middleman must be a millionaire. Why can't we be middleman? I shall push it Ten cents on the farmers market a mr. Tucker that's price today Perhaps it'll change tomorrow, but ten cents court is the price today. I'll take 15 courts from you son I'll be uh, let me see Dollar dollar 50 cents David. Oh, you multiply to you want me to pick it up. No, I'll have Fritz bring it over to you Uh, then it's a deal. It's a deal shake on it. Like I say sure fine man to do business with you I'll have a lot to learn. Hey learn now son from the best teacher from old Jared himself I will start on that tomorrow, right? Well, I'll be getting on home So I'll be dropping stitches worrying about well, please give my regards to your I will I will She'll smile sad and send them back in her name Goodbye majesty girl. Good night majesty Well, how does she look to you mr. Tucker? Oh, I'd say she looks exactly like a cow Right, thanks for coming over mr. Tucker your business your business And if you happen to come across Matthew Warren, you might tell him we managed to deal without him Good night. Good night. I Like that old man. He's awful hard bit, but I like him who wouldn't They do you realize that we're in business darling? Our investment is starting to pay off the rate of a dollar and a half a day What's the matter with a dollar and a half a day? We're selling our milk. We're selling the produce of our own farm There's a cow in our barn and the milk she's giving is earning us money Darling you sound as if she's earning a million dollars. She's earning more than a million dollars She's earning what could be? Independence 15 quarts of milk David will multiply that a hundred times if you know how It's no longer a dollar and a half a day, but that's all it is now Are you so near-sighted? Don't you realize that this means that if we wanted to we could be completely independent That I could be working for myself. What why could practically retire? I don't know why you bother with architecture at all. I don't know why I bother talking to you at all. Oh Darling dope. I understand Doesn't matter that's only a dollar and a half Doesn't matter that all of that dollar and a half is the cost of feed Frits the income tax and pales and amortizing the cow and the barn All of that doesn't matter What does matter is that we could build a life out of this we had to oh David we're so rich because we have a dollar and a half a day darling what we have Millions couldn't buy Few day-in day-out pleasures can compare with the joys of hospitality Good talk and pleasant refreshments shared with friends and the cost of such hospitality need be very little a Tray filled with bottles of Coca-Cola just off the ice says more fully than words alone Relax refresh yourself. It's nice to have you here Keep enough coke on hand so that such a welcome is always ready in your home Evening mr. King Evening Jared Tucker. Oh Majesty's milk and fine. Hey, yes, so I heard the nought and say I knew she would though Majesty's are right good cow Well, Majesty's certainly made cloudy and David feel like a couple of real dairy farmers Hey, dang near are that their majesty cows good enough to be heard nearly heard yep Well, they feel so farmer like in fact mr. Tucker that tomorrow. It's an evening well spent with the Sears robot catalog And the evening is about all that is spent Sears robot catalog Okay, well that book is a disease with Darla I'll be seeing you mr. King goodbye, mr. Tucker Every day Monday through Friday Claudia comes to you transcribe 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 if war 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 bottled Coca-Cola