Life — October 1, 1925 — page 23: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a comic strip titled "Skippy" showing a small child narrowly avoiding a large rock on what appears to be a hillside or slope. The child, looking back at the danger, addresses an unseen companion with the line "Say, do you know you darn near hit that rock?" The humor relies on a child's literal misinterpretation of a near-miss situation. The child seems to be suggesting the rock almost hit *them*, when the actual danger was likely that they nearly threw something (possibly a rock themselves) and it came close to hitting the larger rock. It's a simple, innocent comedic misunderstanding typical of early 20th-century children's humor—playing on the gap between adult logic and childish perspective.