Check out the second panel of today's (August 6th, 2009) strip. Doesn't it look as though the squirrel's hind leg is conversing with a cluster of acorns?
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The funny thing is - when I was a kid, the local paper only ran Mark Trail on Sundays. The other six days they ran something called Buz Sawyer, as I recall. It was years before I found out that Mark had advenutres of his own, and didn't just pop up on Sundays to talk about animals.
Buz Sawyer was a long-running adventure strip created and owned by Roy Crane. Crane had earlier created Wash Tubbs, which evolved into one of the first and best-regarded adventure strips, and its spin-off Captain Easy. According to Lambiek he retired from Sawyer in the 60s, so by the time you remember it may have been in the hands of his successors.
I remember Buz Sawyer from when I was a kid. However, the Sunday strips were given over to "his pal, Roscoe Sweeney," and, as I recall, weren't half as adventuresome or interesting.
From what I can tell Sweeney was the star of the Sunday version from an early stage. According to Toonopedia Crane had handed the Sunday over to others by the late 40s.
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Yeah, that's the site that got me started reading Mark Trail again.
(from here)