Polly and Her Pals — PO350311

Four panels follow Paw's rueful misadventure with a life-insurance salesman. In the opening panel a stout, bowler-hatted figure brags he carries every policy available; the second shows him deflated after Mr. Perkins' flat rejection. Panel three has Susie urging Paw to visit the insurance office at 9 a.m. for his physical; the punchline lands when Paw protests he bought no policy — only for Susie to cheerfully counter, 'But I did!' The loose, rubber-limbed figures and bold ink outlines are classic Sterrett — the same hand that launched *Polly and Her Pals* in 1912 for the Hearst syndicate, making it one of the earliest strips to develop a stable cast across years of daily continuity, a direct ancestor of the comic-book anthology format.