 Your coca-cola bottlery 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 hurry up come to the window quick. Come on my shoe late. We'll tie it afterward Afterwards afterwards you have me brushing down for breakfast precisely not come on come on come on My my we're bossy this morning. That's because we went to bed so early and it makes sense Now all I see out of the window is mr. Tucker scurrying down the road I'm like a stiff-legged rabbit One leg up one leg down here. I wouldn't be surprised Listen, do you have something you want to talk to him about? No, mr. Tucker always has something you want to talk to somebody else about what a funny old man Look now. He stopped running. He's looking around the countryside like a periscope. You don't even know what a periscope is I certainly do So those Cinemagigs one free guy. Yeah, we'll use it the race. Are you wrong again? Well, well, it's not one of those things to look at the moon right right you get $64 sides who cares periscope mr. Tucker is looking around like a periscope And I wonder what he's looking at. He is admiring our view Probably wishing he never sold us this house. Well, I don't blame him. I'd be sorry. I sold this house, too Now with your permission, I would like to go and tie my shoe go right ahead. Thank you. Oh Darling, it's just a beautiful view from this bedroom window Fields and fields and fields Rising and falling like a souffle Oops, I guess mr. Tucker again. You coming over to us. I don't know No, no, he's sort of gone down the road piece. He's almost out of sight now Say David who owns the land across the road I haven't met him. He lives up beyond Bridgeport, I think now Can you imagine owning such a beautiful piece of land and living up beyond Bridgeport? Say there's a beautiful spot over there on the left to build a house. He is crazy Who is crazy the man who lives up beyond Bridgeport though? Let the man live up beyond Bridgeport if you want to I'm perfectly satisfied Wouldn't you rather have a view of the open fields and Mrs. So-and-so hanging out her wash You know, you're so wonderful David. Well, I think you think of everything You should let me say that even Mrs. So-and-so is washing Listen, David what why don't we buy that land with what? With goodwill and a mortgage we have one mortgage already Well, then let's get another to match just a little one to buy the land with we'll have a brace of more you don't buy land with little Mortgages, why not? You can buy a little house with a big mortgage. Yeah, that's very funny Listen, I mean it seriously David We own this land that as far as you could see it would be not in land As far as you could see it would be not in mortgages, too You just said you couldn't buy a piece of land with a little mortgages Claudia don't act dumb me Well, I'm not acting dumb and I prefer to think that you're acting now seriously David Don't you like to look out this window and know that all those hills and acres and fields belong to you? Maybe someday So I bet you that's mr. Cutler. He can have breakfast with us. Told you he's walking as if he had something on his mind You ready to come down David. I'm breathing down your neck. So don't break it running Good morning, mr. Tucker. Come on in. Well, ma'am. You know me before you see me. Well, we recognize your ring Come in come in come in. I don't usually ring man, but she means the sun is hardly raised I minded my manners and I rang besides which your door was locked. Yeah We're just about to have breakfast. Come on in mr. Tucker. Join us. I couldn't eat. Oh, of course. You can at least coffee Have a cup of coffee. There's an extra cup birth always places an extra cup Fine woman birthday, but as I says I couldn't eat. I'm so riled up My stomach is turning turning like a coffee grinder. I couldn't eat why what happened now Please sit down tell us you folks. No, I ain't the kind to come a hustling to carry bad news No, you're not if there's anything I can't stand his folks who go stern around spill not happiness Well, there are always some of those folks mr. Tucker that ain't kind. I am no no So I think twice before I come over here this morning the bad news is for us. Yes Yes, I walked clear by your house in order to give myself a chance a chance to change my mind Yes, we saw you then it says to myself you young ins be my neighbors and you need my wisdom My experience and my advice we certainly do mr. Tucker So I put my natural instincts in my pocket didn't hear a bee How do you you have a shivering in our boots speak up mr. Tucker bad news son bad news Somebody dead We're snap Minutized worry. Well, does it have to do with us directly most directly. It's about the land across the road The land across the road. That's right. Yeah, we were just talking about it as a matter of fact We noticed you looking over that started us talking. Well, what about it? It's such a lovely piece of land mr. Tucker I like to get a mortgage on Claudia that piece of material and his own be a fella who lives up beyond bridge part away Yeah, I know and yesterday the axe fell. Oh was somebody hurt yesterday I noticed there was men stand around looking over the land through them instruments with a plumb bob measuring it So there's a surveyor man. That's what work. Well, you know all about them, mr. Notten. You're an archie tech You know what they mean what time it did the fellow who owns the land salad or put it up for sale It's worse than that. Oh, everything is worse than everything else But still we we don't know what anything is mr. Son, did you hear the rumor a couple months ago? There was going to be a housing development up here in Eastbrook She did well when I seen them surveying men walking around yesterday Measuring and peering and poking and looking and drawing and shaking of their heads and notting and whispering I figured it was no rumor no more What they're going to do with that piece of land across the road is a housing development good lots of people need houses Have you lost your senses ma'am? Well, I don't understand everybody knows lots of people need houses and David knows especially sure they need houses ma'am But they don't need them right here plunk across the road from where you live and right down the road from where I live We're farmers this here's farmland. It doesn't mean our view, but Well, they they have to be someplace ma'am. I can see your brain ain't woke up yet this morning You ain't thought of the ramifications of this year housing development But I can see by the expression on mr. Norton's face that he has Yes, I have yep, you mean the value of the land will go down. No, it'll go up Well, I think that the land with houses on it it have less value. I'm afraid it doesn't work that way Well, then that's good. We'll be worth more. We'll be worth less Well, David just said we land with houses on it ain't worth nothing to farmers ma'am and we be farmers Oh Besides which when we look out the window, we won't see those beautiful fields and hills anymore All the little houses like biscuits will be shooting up like asparagus and june But it ain't your view that's a tragedy houses there's got to be yeah But just seems to me there's plenty land to build a house on Not much land left in these here parts to graze a cow on cows is getting pushed out from every place I'm telling you my blood is cuddling at the thought well it seems to me It's just the opposite Houses are needed and needed badly But always buy milk and a bottle at the store You ain't gonna have milk to sell in bottles in a store if you ain't got land for a cow to graze on to make the milk I'll tell you right right you are I'm telling you son if my ancestors were alive Did they shoot to kill why this year countryside was no more than the wilderness when they set foot and worked in into This is what comes of their having set foot mr. Tucker. We have your ancestors to thank for this Are you blaming me for this sir catastrophe that he who deserves the blame place it there himself Just what I always says ma'am. Don't misunderstand me. I ain't again the wheels your progress turning But I'm fighting for a way of life. Yes, and I understand very well I am sure something could be done about it for instance We could call a meeting of the town council and declare the property out of bounds. Could we really do that? It's free country ain't it? It's a free country. It's free to be built up any way anybody wants to know Do you think your ancestors would have liked it if they set their foot in this here jungle and somebody else told them that they couldn't Build a house. Yeah, I understand how David feels to he feels that if there's to be a housing development It's important. Maybe it shouldn't be stopped way of life or no way of life Well, it's right noble way to feel but don't do a cow no good to a farmer a cow comes first Well, I ain't got no more time to set clevering with you young ones. Hey, listen. Where are you going? You haven't finished your coffee. I gotta get myself over to Matthew Warren's I ain't one for carrying bad news around some things got to be told Set where you are. I'll find the way out. I ain't a man who has to be cuddled Call me mr. Norton if you've got some All right, you're all right at this sucker. I will this odd thing keeps going I'll have to get out my cupboard wagon and head me out west Long so long You look kind of gloomy David. Yeah, I feel kind of gloomy That's because you feel in the middle with yourself. Don't you hate to see that property broken up The other hand as you say people have to live someplace It's true But it's hard to see a whole way of life break down mr. Tucker's not fighting because his view is going to be spoiled But because a pattern for living is going to be spoiled the survival of the small farmer in New England That that that's at stake poor mr. Tucker. You can't blame him I don't want to answer it. I'm not in the mood to be polite to anybody. Maybe it's mama wait. I tell her she'll be heartbroken We'll force her to buy one of the house. Oh, no, no, nothing doing. I'm gonna allow those houses to be built I'm gonna give them to someone who really needs listen to who's playing God Hello Yes, this is not who's this? The Eastbrook Electric Company What what? Yes, certainly we use an electric stove and an electric refrigerator and an oil burner run by electricity. Oh Yes, I oh, I have a little hand hairdryer too. I forgot that's electric. What's going on here? We have a lot of other electric things around to a mixer and oh You're not interested. I see Well, would you mind telling me why you want to know all this here? I'll talk to go wake away Go with the the what the load? Well, what load? Oh I see Well, thank you very much for calling. Goodbye. Oh Anytime you want to call me about our electric things why this call me yes, you'd be just the one they want to talk to What was it honey? I wish I knew the electric company wants to know what load they have to carry Is they're going to strengthen up electric wires or something where they're going to strengthen them up What does that got to do with us? I don't know across the road they said across the road where the housing development is They sent men out surveying yesterday What's the matter David, what's so funny? This isn't a bad enough. We're gonna have a housing development Do we have to have an electric load to darling the electric company is mr. Tucker's housing development What do you mean it means his surveyors where the electric companies and the housing development his Imagination and his fears. I bet you a million dollars. I bet you a million dollars. You're right David. Listen. We ought to call him We ought to call him right away. He's so dismal. I'll call it. Do you realize that now we can still be farmers still darling? We are only just beginning This broadcast of Claudia was supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney When there's nobody home, but you at noon. Do you take time for a restful lunch? 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