Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for September 15, 2016

The most sacred thing to a man. Playing for keeps will come much later for Charlie Brown, so he better practice.

This week we’ve definitely started to see some of the psychological insights at which Schulz became so adept.

Wait until you start playing baseball. You won’t have any pride left!

Shoot, I wonder how many kids today would know HOW to play marbles?

Well, Charlie Brown has pride now. he won’t later

I started 7th grade in 1956 and took my bag of marbles to school for recess. I found out that first day that there is no recess in Jr. High, and nobody plays marbles there. I was very disappointed.

The only time I see marbles nowadays is in the bottom of a flower vase.

You can tell this is an old strip. Pride still mattered more than money back in the 1950’s.

In our marbles games, it got to the point where we had to start calling “No steelies”, because those darn things chipped the glass ones…

I doubt Charlie has much to spare…

We used to play marbles inside on a small circular rug. It was just like a putting green. My favorite marble was a white-yellow-black one I called “bumble-bee”. :D