Little Eva #9

Little Eva and a friend scheme to sneak into an adults-only movie by dressing up and disguising themselves as teenagers, complete with borrowed clothes and shoe-polish wrinkles. Their elaborate masquerade nearly works—until they discover the theater's special show has changed to a kids-only matinee. A humorous two-page tale about the lengths kids will go to seem grown-up, only to have their plans hilariously backfire.

When Nipper's shiny new bike vanishes, he spots the neighborhood tough, Knuckles Knowley, riding off on it—but when Nipper tries to retrieve his prize, he accidentally grabs the wrong bicycle, sending both him and Knowley on a wild chase through the neighborhood. With a cop caught in the middle trying to sort out who really owns what, Nipper discovers his bike has been on quite the adventure of its own.

Little Eva sets up a lemonade stand, but when a customer drinks six glasses and claims to feel sick, she discovers her cure-all remedy might not work quite as advertised. It's a quick, silly lesson in the limits of homemade medicine and the pitfalls of enthusiastic salesmanship.

Eva and Cindy head out fishing at their secret spot, but their plans keep getting disrupted—first by the persistent Nipper, then by a series of increasingly wild fishing mishaps that send them scrambling for new locations. When they finally devise a clever scheme involving borrowed paint, they discover that sometimes the biggest catch comes with a hilarious twist.

Eva refuses to go to bed, convinced she could stay awake for days—so she sneaks out her window on a rope made of sheets to play outside as late as she wants. After climbing back inside to avoid her parents, exhaustion catches up with her, and she falls asleep almost instantly, only to wake the next morning to discover she's slept through the entire night.