 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 oh More people bother you in the country than in the city Oh people have more time for it really the world can be too much with you That's a wonderful morning. We were going to be really alone all day. Probably isn't anybody. Nobody doesn't ring like that You go on get rid of them darling. You go out and get rid of them faster Locker here. I love that old man, but I'd love him more some other day Oh, any not and drown Yeah, we're in the living room. It's darker. Come on in Hello, how are you? I don't want you to think I was just passing by I'm not the idly kind of man just to be dropping in. I like my privacy I like others to respect it of course that doesn't apply to good neighbors and young people like you You'd be welcome to drop in on me anytime you like Well, we want you to feel that way about the noughtons place to mr.. This morning. I dropped by a purpose of What be going to do what be we're going to do about what that's your barn That are barn. Yep. Well, we uh, well, I mean the barn is just finished and I want to thank you for all the help You were while I was in the hospital. Oh sucks twice and nothing I'd have get it for anybody if I like them well enough, but they're speaking about the barn It's finished, but it's empty. Well, we've we've got I know I know I know you got my sal ruby and one rooster It can be heard better and all over the county But you didn't build yourself that barn and put in fancy mail order stanchions for them So for all practical purposes your barns empty. Well, I thought I'd wait a little while you got a man You got a barn you got again to have a cow When you can get a good cow, that's the time to get her Time and cows wait for no man like the old saying goes the old saying goes time and tide Yes, we see fair and men the farmers it's time and cows now What kind of a cow you young folks aim to have yourself? Well, um, just a cow just a cow No cow at all some of them ain't even good for hamburger. Oh, we don't want hamburger We want milk all of them give milk Most of them give less than you think they're gone to when you buy a Claudia mr. Tucker was asking what breed of cow we wanted. Oh, you mean black cows or brown cows black or brown or red Your brindler sky blue pink paint the color. It's a breed of counts Guernsey Holstein Jersey Brown Swiss airshire. It's an awful lot of names. I I I think we really wanted Just a cow mr. Tucker. I'm afraid Claudia is something of a city girl when it comes to cows I agree with you when it comes to cows the first thing is to decide the breed now I sort of thought that we made an excellent choice son an excellent choice yep an excellent choice It's a fine breed a fine breed adapted to our new England country Just like the was bred for well far just to make the most milk out of the least feed to do lots of butter fat None of your pale blue thin milk out of me gentle to gentle gentle and intelligent and have too much intelligence in the cow You can't know mr. Tucker you neglected to mention just what breed it is that I decided I want what Jersey son jerseys There ain't no other breed you'd want. No, thank you, mr. Tucker I just thought it'd be nice to know I I grew up with Guernsey and got about your system good now You want jerseys you made a good choice son sort of looks as if the choice had been made for us mr. Tucker Of course if you hadn't wanted jerseys, I wouldn't have been no point in my talking to you But since it is jerseys or nothing, I'll come to the hub why I'm here mr. Tucker You wouldn't miss us understand if I ask you one question miss understand no fire away son Do you keep Jersey cows? What other kinds would I be keeping and you want to sell us one of yours mr. Tucker? Nothing would make David and me happier than to own one of your cows. Well, it's a happiness You'll have to defer young lady sell my shoes here my nail. I decide sooner sell my sister. Delilah site sooner That's her of course. I I could replace Susie or now and I couldn't replace my sister Delilah, but Don't know who shot care to Me mr. Norton as females go cows is superior That is a philosophy which I hope David has never brought to women's drive mentor if they're not smart Do you you look smart mrs. Norton? Hope you are smart as you look One of the nicest compliments ever paid to me and if a cow is that important mr. Tucker I can see why the relationship of owning one like matrimony is not lightly to be entered upon son There's a lot about cows you haven't learned yet I suppose you too think of cow when you think of her the only thing you think of is milk Hey, well, it's sort of the first thing you think of yep Got a lot to learn Without cows landing got no balance cows give a lot of a lot beside milk They give nice clover fields pretty poses and Saves you from buying them stuff It's your own it ain't there stuff here got to go off and brought by it outrageous prices You know well frankly, I hadn't been thinking about cows from that angle and that ain't all you never got just one cow They keep coming regulars cockwork if you're lucky and they ain't bullcage It can count that clear profit just like dividend from an investment It's always been a wonder to me a man would put his money into Wall Street when he can put it in a cow Well, they're varying opinions about the profit some people say that you some people say the cost more and you get from them But folks to say that ain't counting the value of health and human happiness I suppose not it's a sorry bookkeeping system that don't have columns for health and human happiness Most of the real profits alive was in them two columns. Yes. Um, you Well, it could question you two young sad your first fight yet. Well, it's too normal young people We have not we have never had a fight watch yourself. You'll be having your first fight about not having one You mean if David and I have a fight instead of turning to another woman for sympathy I'll just go out to the barn and nuzzle my head against our Jersey cow and say my wife doesn't understand me Words to that effect on the worst that effect. Yes, there's peace and understanding in a cow's eyes She's placid. She don't talk back and she smells all sweet and clover like not a winter morning Her breath is all steamy like she never nags son. There's nothing like a cow your life ain't completing until you got a cow You haven't by any chance got a particular car without whom you uh, or should I say which? David's life won't be complete. Have you mr.. Talker that I have ma'am that I have she's right near home She is too wouldn't even have to trucker just drive her across to pasture. Yeah, what are we waiting for? Where is this bovine paragon? Well, uh, no, no exactly what she's somewhere in Matthew Warren's pasture lot this minute Don't know where Matthew Warren. You mean our neighbor the same. Well if mr. Warren wants to sell a cow Why don't we go over and see it hold your horses son hold your horses? Horses now, but we're not interested in horses. We just want to call now. Look here young lady buying a cow's nothing to get Fractious or comical about you buy her and she's yours You live with her for the rest of your natural life, but if mr. Warren wants to sell a cow It's only not there ain't nothing natural about it. Who said Matthew Warren wants to sell a cow You just got finished saying that he wanted to think I said no such thing Matthew Warren is going to sell a cow and you're going to buy it But Matthew Warren he don't know nothing about it. What's more? He's got his mind made up be he ain't going to sell no cows Well, and what's all the talking about cows? It all sounds very complicated, but of course It's complicated buying cows is always complicated and there'd be nothing simple about it. It's sort of Well, it's sort of wait. Hey could called fine art. That's what is it's a fine art This is all beyond me and I must confess that I'm way behind you mr. Tucker now look you to it's really simple really simple It is if you wish to go over to Arden and say mr. Warren We want to buy one of your cows the whole deal would be shut done and finished should be Why if he wants to sell it son? He he don't want to sell no cow. Oh, so confounded simple I don't know why you two can't get it through your heads perfectly simple to me We want to buy a cow Matthew Warren wants to sell a cow only Matthew Warren doesn't know he wants to sell a cow Miss Norton, you're a country girl talk You understand me plain and right off good. Well, I'm just a city boy. Bring me in out of the dark plain plain plain as the nose on your face Matthew Warren loves his cows His jerseys are the finest in the state finest in the county maybe take prizes every year at the Danbury fair I'm with you that's why he loves his jerseys so much. He don't like to sell them mr. Tucker stop right stop right there Now that's the point that I jumped off the track simple Warren don't want to sell his cows his herds grows But this is the crux of the situation his farm don't grow so there you are gonna take me along just one step further mr. Tucker and I I might know where I am herd lords farm small wet weather good for hay too much wet weather bad for Hey, so last evening Matthew comes to me and says Jared. I'm sure to feed for this winter You cut more hand you need could I buy some often says and you've got more than you need Dang tootin. I have never going to catch Jared Tucker sort of feed. No So so you've got yourselves a chance to buy a good jersey count mr. Tucker I think I'm off the track again. Yes, if you've got extra hay and a neighbor needs hay you and mr. Not in my neighbors, too. Warren's got a lot of cows Don't hurt him to have one less do you a lot of good to have to have one more? I'm just the The Deus ex machina. Yes. Yes, that's it. Yeah, the ducks in the machine that pulls the strings Now if I wish to advise you which which I ain't I Would advise you to let a couple days pass let a couple days go by now Dingle-dangle warn along and finally tell him he don't get none of my hay safe He doesn't get any at all then along about Monday. He's in the right mood the irons hot You buy yourselves a cow. It doesn't sound exactly honest to me. It's cow trading. It's as honest as most I'll go along with ya on Monday and it sounds awfully complicated to mr. Tucker Now wait a minute mr. Tucker. I just want to be sure that I have it straight Now we're going over and see Matthew Warren on Monday Yes, and if he's in the right mood and you haven't sold him any hay, but then we can buy the cow Is that right dang it all mr. And mrs. Norton course. This is all complicated Yankee trading wouldn't be no fun if it wasn't complicated getting married sometimes complicated Stop interrupting girl having a baby sometimes complicated But there will sometimes live in complicated, but buying the cow is always complicated It's fun, too As you stop in the food store or a drug store for the family needs You'll notice the red cooler that invites you to pause and refresh with ice-cold Coca-Cola Step up drop a nickel in the slot and shop refreshed That delicious refreshment will remind you to take a carton of coke home for the family to Hi there mr. King Are you a Yankee am I a what them shooting words where I come from? Might known from your voice. She was no Yankee, but our wedgie was born close to a farm You ever done any cow rating son now you wouldn't be trying to sell me a cow with the Jared you in the market for one No, I guess you're not but I've been having a time with these here Norton friends of yours They're babes in the woods. You're still talking about cows Well, they depend on me like ours or grandpa nothing do but I have to go along with him to buy a cow on Monday But don't go Matthew Arnold skin the eyes off is a Matthew Warren selling them a cow. He is but he don't know it yet So long Jared. I have a notion a Yankee notion that is that I'm going to see some Yankee trading on Monday 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 joking saying or if wire 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 The parts of Claudia and David on this program were played by Katherine Bard and Paul Crabtree 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