 Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia Claudia based on the original stories 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 are you doing home at noon time to have lunch David is anything wrong? No darling. Nothing is wrong with me, but your eyes are red. Are they I can't tell I'm behind them David did you oh? I know why you came oh darling that sweet. You don't know anything of the kind and I'm not sweet I came home to test you test me How many times do I have to tell you not to answer the door when you don't know who it is And how do you expect me to find out put the chain on the door before you open? No one can get in if you don't want them to that's sissy, and I am not a sis then become a sissy Sometimes it's smart to be one can't pull me David. You didn't come home to tell me that Came home because of the sick kitten didn't you you can't fool me either That's why your eyes are red. I Had to be uptown this afternoon anyway, but it's so awful to watch him. Where is he and the sofa of your time to come in I'll make time. I'm glad you came He's only a kitten and yet I I just can't help feeling David you don't think I'm just being silly. No look darling. I married you because you are silly about things like this I know there are lots of things more important in the world But I not really because this sick kitten is a symbol of all the important things in the world See what you mean David Poor little devil He just seems to get smaller so pitifully smaller and David What did he's not going to die is he well he doesn't seem to be getting any better I wish he'd never brought him home. Why ask for heartache when you don't have to If you are afraid of that you won't have any joy either David I'm not brave and I'm I'm sorry if you're disappointed in me now listen here a moment ago You said you weren't a sissy. I'm not about opening doors Maybe about life. I Know that's probably for me I told Roger to call in case something came up at the office. Hello. Oh Kelly this is not. Yes but I'll be tied up for a little while. But look here now you stay where you are I'll be there when I get there. I'm warning you have that reinforcing problem licked or else. Okay goodbye oh boy. I couldn't be married to Kelly David. He wouldn't understand. He's not a bad guy just a little tough. You sound tough. I am tough. Don't let this general exterior fool you. It's not the exterior that fools me it's your interior just because you think I came home at high noon to see a sick kitten. You think I'm not tough. I think you're wonderful. That's what I say. How would you like to go out to dinner tonight. There's that nice fish place around the corner. No I'd rather stay home. Would you like me to get some fish for dinner. It all depends on what kind of fish not salmon please. There are other kinds of fish salmon in the sea. Maybe the smell of fish and pick up the kitten like aromatic spirits of ammonia. Well it's an idea no harm in trying darling I'm going by the store I'll give you a lift in the car David start maybe when I get back he'll be better maybe darling but don't count on it. Good day Mrs. Norton. Oh hello lovely day yes. Is it I've been hearing so I highly noted I take your binders up here without great it's all right I can I go up any way to the fourth floor to fix things but you're always going up to the fourth floor what do they do up there for little boys. I take the packages I can smell it that's good I hope the kittens can that's what I bought it for the little kids are too young for eating still I know what I'm awfully sick for it no one so small before he even is alive but the other one he is strong he's all right we're maybe the little sick one will be all right to I was a farmer once Mrs. Norton I was good with the animals I come in and look at him oh would you maybe you'll know what the matter maybe I try come on he's in the living room I go in first and see how he is I'll come with you he's right over there for it's on the pillow yeah it's awfully quiet now yeah he is quiet that's a good sign isn't it he's been mostly feverish and restless is he warm for his fear his nose no he is he's cool now then maybe everything is all right now it is you mean he yeah I shouldn't have gone out if I'd stayed home you could do nothing it's the way what way always for the living there there must be the dead why he was so small it's not the size or the age there's no method in it at all it's not for us to decide how I take him now I take care of everything what are you gonna do no don't tell me I don't want to know it will be the best that way that's the other one I guess he doesn't know he knows perhaps he's made of the fit I don't want him now you take the other kitten too fritz give him to breath it no you'll be one no I don't want anything it's safer not to want anything I've learned that much already but Mrs. Norton he cries for you and he's alive yet it's for the living one must live until yeah until and then there they're always others and I go now that's that she will come up I'm all right thanks fritz yeah Mrs. Norton thanks for having been here oh I am glad and you will see with things like this we cannot fight and always there are things like this who do you think it is I'll open it and see I will what do you think you're doing being a city of course like my husband likes me to be I'll ring your neck oh put your face up to the crack let me see who it is open this door your face up all I can see is the tip of your nose I don't recognize it you will recognize it all right is that a nice way to ask permission to come in what's the password Claudia darling it's the end of a long day I'm tired better well now that I know you're the dashing harmless Mr. Norton come on in you know I thought it was you you did huh mm-hmm oh you're never satisfied this morning when I opened the door without the chain I got a long lecture about it you should be locked up say you've got a funny look on your face you're not very original you said that this morning this is a different funny look oh you're much too gay oh I just can't please you this morning my eyes were read tonight there is something fishy about all this can you smell it all the way out here and I don't mean fish oh now try and answer me like a human being that's a lovely thing to call your favorite wife what is nearly a human being I haven't seen you all day since one o'clock then you come home and the best you can do is call me a human being you were right I apologize you're not a human being I'm not no resemblance at all and what have you got nicer to say I am you are half wood sprite half she devil and half magpie it can't be why not that's three has David nothing's three has you are there's a lot more to you than meets the eye oh now you're being really sweet I will not be called really sweet I feel anything but tell me how does it feel to feel like anything but not bad not bad I wish I felt like anything but darling sit on my lap a minute say did I tell you about the little man at the fish store what about him well I went in about the fish I didn't know what kind to get so you know David fish stores are pretty exciting places when you're accustomed to the butcher don't you think I mean the fish store people sort of have something in common the fish no no it's more than that I sort of get a feeling when I buy a fish that I never get when I buy a steak I don't even know where a steak comes from from a steer you don't know I know it comes from something but I mean it's a little part of that something has no personality but a fish there you really got something all of it you can even look at right in the eye do you always look you're fishing the eye before you buy always there it is resting elegantly on the bed of crack ice perfectly self-satisfied absolutely unblinking and disinterested you know where you stand with a fish because there it is in person there are no bones about it there are plenty of bones in a fish none in a steak but what about the little man what about him oh yes well he wanted to tell me a few last solar halibut but I bought a mackerel the whole fish no fish at all oh so much personality in a mackerel this one David was positively magnetic and what and then what then nothing that's all there is to it fascinating the story of a magnetic map look darling relax I am relaxed I'm so relaxed I've got the gills you're you're not kidding me now come on now tell me what's happened since I saw you I was telling you that's not what I meant and you know it I know it a kitten died David while I was out with a mackerel darling I'm I'm sorry so am I but didn't you call me well I I thought I'd wait till you got home you know in a way I was glad you weren't here David gave me a little time very easy bits took him darling I I bought those kittens brought them home to make everything easier not harder I know you did darling and I'm I'm sorry don't be sorry I I am because in a way it's it's my fault they were too young I was too young this morning too say Fritz was a farmer did you know he was mm-hmm I suppose when you're a farmer you you're gonna learn an awful lot about things too like Fritz yes you do from the start to the finish there's a lot of living that goes on and working the land you're gonna make a wonderful farmer David just like Fritz that's a that's a very very nice compliment Claudia hmm would you like me to return the other kittens now come on come on come on don't be ashamed to say so I'm only Papa no Papa you were awfully smart to buy a spare darling you should see how much milk the spare drink this afternoon remarkable remarkable you wait and see he's gonna grow up to be the world's most outstanding cat I'd say he would probably be the chairman of the back fence how's that very good you know darling even if you put eight chains on eight doors before letting anyone in you you still wouldn't be a sissy well then it's all right for me to open the door but if I ever catch you doing it I will break every bone in your body oh David how wonderful you really love me as much as that all story material used on this broadcast of Claudia was under the supervision of Rose Franken and William Brown Maloney getting ready to go to market then put this hint in the back of your mind pause where you see that familiar red cooler and have an ice cold Coca-Cola then you can 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