Peanuts by Charles Schulz for August 24, 1952

Transcript:

"It's gone!" Charlie Brown stands on his doorstep and gazes out.<BR><BR> "Of all the nerve!" he grumbles as he walks off the doorstep.<BR><BR> He stands on the sidewalk. "Lucy's taken my baseball glove again!"<BR><BR> "Just because I leave it on the front sidewalk every night, she thinks it's public property!" He walks down the street.<BR><BR> "I'm going to settle this once and for all..." he declares, his jaw set as he walks down the street.<BR><BR> "HEY, YOU!!" Charlie Brown cries, running up to Lucy as she jumps up to catch a baseball in the mitt with a THUMP!<BR><BR> "?!" Charlie Brown watches in amazement as Lucy leans over and catches the ball as it bounces off the sidewalk with a KLOP!<BR><BR> PLUNK! She reaches out and catches another ball. Charlie Brown watches in the background.<BR><BR> CLUMP! She jumps into the air to make another catch.<BR><BR> "Oh, do you want your glove back, Charlie Brown?" she offers it to him. He turns and waslk away. "No, you might a well keep it, Lucy....I'll probably never have any use for it again!"<BR><BR>