<P> The series was translated into Portuguese and published in the Brazilian children's magazine O Tico - Tico (where Buster Brown was known as Chiquinho); its stories were loosely adapted by Brazilian writers . </P> <P> Buster Brown is a young city - dwelling boy with wealthy parents . He is disturbingly pretty (contrast him to Outcault's own The Yellow Kid, or Frederick Opper's creations), but his actions belie his looks . He is a practical joker who might dress in a girl's outfit and have her wear his clothes, break a window with his slingshot, or play a prank on a neighbor . The trick or transgression is discovered and he is punished, usually by being spanked by his mother, but it is unclear if he ever repents . Many strips end with Buster delivering a self - justifying moral which has little or nothing to do with his crime . For example, a strip from May 31, 1903, shows him giving Tige a soda from a drugstore soda fountain . The drink splashes, not only the front of his own clothes, but the skirts of a woman's splendid dress . Horrified by his clumsy misadventure, Buster's mother takes him home and flogs him with a stick . In the last panel the boy has written a message beginning, "Resolved! That druggists are legalized robbers; they sell you soda and candy to make you ill, then they sell you medicine to make you worse ." </P> <P> Mary Jane is Buster's sweetheart . </P> <P> Tige is thought to be the first talking pet to appear in the comics, and, like that of many of his successors, his speech goes unnoticed by adults . </P>

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