The Wasp, 1913 · page 182 of 364
The Wasp — 1913 — page 182: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains no cartoon or satirical illustration—it's purely text, appearing to be a serialized fiction story published in *The Wasp* magazine. The passage describes a nautical scene: a character named Trimmer spots another ship (the *Tartar*) through a telescope, heading toward Nevis. Later, a man named Burnham gambles in the cabin, winning ten guineas at dice from Trimmer and Wells, then makes a makeshift bed on deck. Without additional context about the story's full narrative or the historical moment of publication, the satirical or political purpose—if any—is unclear. This could be straight adventure fiction rather than satire. The nautical setting and gambling detail suggest 19th-century seafaring narrative, but without seeing the surrounding pages or knowing the story's larger arc, I cannot identify what, if anything, is being satirized.
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f THE WASP 177 Trimmer went aloft and examined it through his glass, He reported a large sloop, a single-sticker with a cloud of head-sails, southward bound. Beyond a doubt it was the Tartar heading for Nevis; so the white schooner held on her way. The bright day wore on to a red sunset and a star-spangled night. Burnham diced for a couple of hours in the cabin with Trimmer and Wells and won ten guineas. He then left the cabin and made himself a bed of sorts of an old sail on the deck. He lay in the starboard scuppers, amidships, in the shadow of the bulwarks. Comichooks.com