Transcript:
Patty stands in front of Shermy sitting on the curb, wearing his baseball mitt. He says,"Our baseball rolled down the sewer!"
She peers down the sewer ask he crouches next to her and replies,"Charlie Brown is down there now trying to find it..."
She stands over Shermy as he looks at eyes peering out at him from the sewer. He asks,"Did you find the ball, Charlie Brown?"
He continues,"Or aren't you Charlie Brown?"
Trivia:
This gag is recycled from the Li'l Folks strip from July 6, 1947:
Original comic:
That’s mildly unsettling.