That Fierce Bandit in the Copse

This strip is from the very next day, yet it refers to the fierce bandit as if we had witnessed the encounter. Well, we didn't. And you would think that with the camaraderie that these two have, we would see them again. But we don't. The next daily jumps back to Owl's school, and we don't see these two fine fellows again (at least not in the remaining months of sequential strips that I have. Kelly's stories and characters meander where they will, sometimes with no rhyme or reason.