Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for August 11, 2021

if you don’t like what you read, don’t read it at all

Thus begins her career as a psychiatrist

Just let it slide, Lucy!

I know…I AM the boy and always SLIDEly afraid of everything!

An harbinger of what Lucy is like as a psychiatrist.

It reads like, “See Dick see the slide…”

The boy is just a little boy. He’ll go down the slide when he’s ready and then he’ll have fun.

The first time on a slide can be intimidating.

No one wants to go down a slippery slope.

Why do I want to go down a slide to get to the place I already am? It could be hot, not slippery and full of germs or bird poop…

Lucy’s first psychiatric diagnosis.

The boy jumped off the slide half way down. Unfortunately, the grass was wet that day, which made his soles wet and so his foot slipped when he jumped and he ended up breaking his wrist.

5 cents, please.

the strip is reused by… https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts-begins/1953/07/13