Peanuts by Charles Schulz for March 01, 1967

Transcript:

Linus walks with Charlie Brown and asks, "How can you tell a 'Kite-eating' tree from an ordinary tree?"<BR><BR> Charlie Brown explains, "You can't until you see a kite caught by one . . . An ordinary tree will let a kite go right away, but a kite-eating tree will hang on to a kite for weeks!"<BR><BR> Charlie Brown grits his teeth and continues, "They clutch kites in their greedy branches, and slowly devour them! It's a shocking sight . . . They eat the paper like it was fried chicken and spit out the sticks like bones."<BR><BR> Charlie Brown says, "Any one of these trees could be a monstrous kite eating tree . . . You just can't tell . . ." Linus looks scared as a tree growls.<BR><BR>