Here’s the February 20, 2006 comic from Barney Google and Snuffy Smith.
I always find this whole strip an oddity. They are clearly Appalachian-type mountain folks, who always went barefoot a lot. Yet, in the comic strip the characters are almost always depicted wearing shoes.
About the only thing this particular strip gets right is that kids growing up in that area really hated wearing shoes.
When I go hiking in southeast Ohio, the hilly region, I quite regularly have conversations with other hikers who see me and tell me that when they were growing up they went barefoot all summer long and could run on gravel. But then they always add that they could never do that now.
Kind of sad, actually. In Russian literature there are a few examples of rich kids envious that poor kids can go barefoot.
Hysterical!
Have you seen this?
https://barefootmovies.blogspot.se/