The Wasp, 1913 · page 133 of 364
The Wasp — 1913 — page 133: what you’re looking at
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This page contains no visible cartoon or illustration—it appears to be text-only narrative content from a serialized story in *The Wasp* magazine. The passage describes colonial Caribbean naval politics. "The Wasp" refers to a ship engaging in acts of defiance ("slaps in the faces") against British authority—the Crown, its representatives, and its naval vessels. The narrative follows James Burnham, apparently a colonial official, receiving dispatches about a newly-arrived British sloop-of-war, the *Tartar*, which will patrol waters around St. Kitts and Nevis. The passage includes social details (references to "Kitty Trimmer's lovelorn swains") suggesting romantic subplots typical of serialized fiction of the era. Without seeing the broader context or illustrations, the specific satirical targets remain unclear, though the content evidently mocks British naval authority in the colonies.
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Pace ects Silene eee SS ee ee 130 THE WASP Se ae ch a tee One Sa te These deeds of the Wasp were slaps in the faces of their majesties, of their majesties’ representa- tives, and of their majesties’ ships. The frigate departed for the field of the Wasp’s activities three hours later with at least half a dozen of Kitty Trimmer’s lovelorn swains aboard. Two days later, when James Burnham entered the governor’s cabinet in the cool of the morning, he found that his excellency had received a bag of letters from England and the southward islands. A merchantman had just arrived from Barbados and had brought the mails from the sloop-of-war Tartar. A letter from the Tartar’s commander to the goy- ernor was the most important item of the mails. It announced that the sloop-of-war, which was fresh out from England, would remain in Carlisle Bay for eight or ten days, undergoing some slight re- pairs to her yards and spars, and would then weigh anchor for Nevis. She was commissioned to police the narrow seas about the islands of St. Kitts and Comicnooks.com