Mr. Titus Wad Hasn't a Very Clear Idea of the Duties of a Cowboy

This five-panel comic strip depicts Mr. Titus Wad, a city gentleman receiving cowboy instruction from a laconic ranch hand named Cicero. The humor unfolds through Wad's misunderstandings: he mistakes a lasso for a jump rope, attempts to use a branding iron as a cooking tool, and finally lassoes himself instead of cattle. The strip exemplifies early newspaper comic conventions—sequential panels with speech balloons, recurring characters, and escalating physical comedy. Published in the era when daily newspaper strips were establishing visual grammar still used in comics today, this work captures the period's fascination with frontier themes filtered through urban, genteel perspectives.