that’s the gag
perhaps the tablets are wood? Stone is only inferred by the reader, not implied by the cartoonist.
Doesn’t the i in ixxx mean idiot?
So?
Because it was no longer needed, as the fact that clumsy is going out of business had been established in the first panel. Or maybe Hart forgot,
YES
or snow shovels. Oh, wait – this is a comic
Of course Peter has a loupe.
In their time setting, glass would have been far more valuable.
deja vu
that’s the gag