Play ball!

Yeah, we all knew that this was going to happen.  You know, maybe he shouldn't have interfered with that old moose in the first place (and how do we know that it's not a female moose with a calf?  Why are we so quick to assume the moose is alone and so quick to assume the mountain lion isn't?).  Personally, I think that 'ole Brawny of the teeny tiny feet and the moose are just playing a game of swamp ball (and they're doing it with an official Jack Elrod ball).  After that, they're going to have a foot, or hoof, race, so Cherry had to run and get the starting rifle (I mean, we are in the forest after all.  A pistol just wouldn't be appropriate.).  I hope that moose is going to be all right, though I think that Brawny is the one who's in real danger since the others seem to be about a mile away, and by the time Cherry gets in range (if she's planning to shoot the moose, and not just fire into the air to scare it off), whatever trampling is going to be done will have been done, especially since it looks like Brawny is about to take a header into the water.

And on a completely unrelated note, I can't help looking at the first panel and hear a moose voice in my head calling out, "Wait mister!  You forgot your change!"