Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for September 03, 2016

I know someone like that.

stingy lithe girl Patty is

Charlie Brown, you talk way too much. You should have just taken off instead of trying to talk your way through it.

Now that’s just stealing. No wonder everyone picks on Charlie Brown. He doesn’t do anything about his injustice.

The world is full of such Pattys.

An early carnation of Moe? (Nearly the same thing happens with a swing decades later in Calvin and Hobbes). https://www.pinterest.com/pin/313633561524402132/

“Up one street and down the other”??? Where’s his parents? Who’s watching him? Where’s his helmet, and knee and elbow pads? Is that a white van in the background? The horror!

Good ol’ Charlie Brown

Is this the first appearance of CB in his trademark orange zig-zag shirt?

If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy. Works here also.

“Fine, I’ll just ride my Harley instead!”

And so it goes…

thought that would be more Lucy’s speed.

She probably wasn’t old enough yet to ride.

Just try to argue with a cute little girl when she wants something from you. ;)

Ya, there were lots of jerk kids like that when I was in school, but they were all boys!

Off she goes, pedaling around in the sunshine: up one street, and down another.

“A thousand rainy days ’since we first met…”

Good practice for future relationships, Charlie Brown!