For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 30, 2024

Early hints that April will be the type of girl who likes to spend her time around large animals, maybe even professionally.

John, you’re a real softie. Your wife would be screaming her fool head off at this scenario!

Makes sense.

From Lynn’s Comments: I received some wonderful letters when this strip ran. A lot of people dream about horses!

Speaks like a preschooler, thinks like an adult…

I think it’s sweet he is letting her do that. No harm.

Mmmm…sweet dreams of smelly boots!

Be a proud Horse Girl.

If that works for April, I’m taking my fishing pole to bed tonight!

Horse With No Name

Why isn’t it a cowgirl hat?

and so it begins

April drifts off to sleep and the Sandman takes over … So I sent her to a place in the middle of nowhereWith a big black horse and a cherry tree(Woohoo, woohoo)Now it won’t come back ‘cause it’s oh-so-happyAnd now I’ve got a hole for the world to see(Woohoo, woohoo)

Tomorrow morning the hat is smashed flat.

Ah, the future veterinarian. Love it.

Every little girls dream, to have a pony of their very own.

I can see the other stuff, April. But doncha think that the boots are a bit much?

An oddly precognitive strip—-I doubt April’s future had been planned out at this stage

Time to buy April a pony!

I believe I’ve dreamed about horses twice in my life. Once when I was riding, once about four years after we sold our horse. In the dream I was saying goodbye to her and I often wonder if that was the day she died. She would have been about at the end of her life expectancy at that point.

I seem to recall something in the last strip of the series …

Good thought, April.

We, fathers have a soft spot in our hearts for our daughters while deep down inside Mothers think of them as competition—they are other women aren’t they ! ! ! !

Happy Trails to you……., sleep well Cowgirl ! ;-)

At least she’s not wearing them.

Hushabye, don’t you cry Go to sleep, my little baby When you wake, you shall have All the pretty little ponies

I don’t understand all of the criticism either. It is just a comic1

Sounds like a good reason to me! She may get tired of the extra stuff during the night but that’s up to her and certainly no harm in it! Dream on.

Maybe she’s just taking that stuff to bed so she can ride her night mare.

Hope she sleeps dry while wearing her cowboy outfit …. wouldn’t want to get chapped hips!

I still have my teddy after 63 years. He sits on my dresser and is always watching over me.

God bless her heart.

April’s dream. She is walking in a cemetary and an undead dog rises from the ground

Farley: You killed me, April!

April: Oh no, oh no!

April runs down to river. Undead dog is chained to riverbed

Farley: You killed me, April!

Ground swallows April down the Gates of Hell. People cheer

Crowd: Justice for Farley! Ooga Farley!

Elly: One less oops baby for me!

Four Horsemen ride across sky. April awakens

April: AUGGGH! Not dreaming of those horses!

I once slept with the Lone Ranger dual six guns I received one year for Christmas ;)