Peanuts by Charles Schulz for December 20, 1987

Transcript:

Sally walks along looking down at the radio as music plays from it.<BR><BR> She sits in a chair with Linus, who is reading. She looks over at the radio on the table as it plays,"Four calling birds, and a partridge in a pear tree..." He exclaims,"That song drives me crazy!"<BR><BR> She turns to him and asks,"What in the world is a 'calling bird'?" He looks at her and replies,"A calling bird is a kind of partridge..."<BR><BR> She stares straight ahead as he reads from the book; he reads,"In I Samuel, 26:20, it says, 'For the king of Israel has come out to seek my life just as though he were hunting the calling bird..."<BR><BR> He closes the book, and with one hand in the air, continues,"There's a play on words here, you see...David was standing on a mountain calling, and he compared himself to a partridge being hunted..."<BR><BR> He turns to her and asks,"Isn't that fascinating?"<BR><BR> He slouches down in the chair as she replies,"If I get socks again for Christmas this year, I'll go even more crazy!"<BR><BR>