Peanuts by Charles Schulz for March 29, 1987
Transcript:
Spike stands in the desert with his ice-skates in hand. He looks at the sign tacked to the cactus and thinks, "Rats!" The sign reads, 'No Ice Skating Today'<BR><BR> Snoopy sits atop of his doghouse, with an envelope in one paw and a letter in the next. He smiles as he looks at the letter and thinks, "Another letter from my brother Spike..."<BR><BR> Spike lies on the ground in the desert, writing on a rock. He writes, "Dear Snoopy, Yesterday I decided to do something different."<BR><BR> Spike rolls along within a ball of tumbleweed. He continues to write, "First, I rode a tumbleweed into town..."<BR><BR> Spike sits on a table pulling on his roller-skates. He writes, "While I was there, I decided to go roller skating..."<BR><BR> He skates down the road, pass a wooden wall. He writes, "Someone asked me if I could a 'Figure Eight'...."<BR><BR> He puts his hands up to his hat. He writes, "I said 'No'"<BR><BR> He skates off down the road, with his skates creating four lines in his wake. He writes, "But I can do a One thousand one hundred and eleven'!"<BR><BR>
The ice is still too soft for ice skating. Oh well, maybe tomorrow.