Mr. Titus Wad Thought He'd Found the Python—But It Was a Pachyderm!

This six-panel strip follows Mr. Wad through a mishap at the Shrine Circus. Spotting what he believes to be a python, Wad attempts to capture it inside the tent, only to discover his quarry is actually an elephant's trunk. The comic employs the visual conventions that defined early newspaper comics: sequential panels advancing a single gag, action lines conveying movement, and speech balloons carrying dialogue and reaction. The humor derives from mistaken identity and escalating physical comedy—staples of silent-era comics that influenced the emerging vocabulary of sequential art.