Peanuts by Charles Schulz for December 20, 1987
December 19, 1987
December 21, 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>
tdoug1 over 9 years ago
Sometimes Sally is Lucy Junior.
All... about 4 years ago
The song never goes from “four calling birds” straight to “a partridge in a pear tree”. Also, I wonder where Schulz got that verse. I looked in 24 different English versions of the Bible and most of them say “partridge” with a couple of them saying “bird” or “wild bird”. None of them said “calling bird”. “Calling birds” doesn’t seem to refer to any specific kind of bird at all (though some might say it still refers to the black birds from the original lyrics of “collie birds”).
zodal about 2 years ago
Forgot 3 french hens and 2 turtle doves