The Wasp, 1913 · page 226 of 364
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This page appears to be from a serialized narrative fiction rather than a political cartoon. It's prose text describing interpersonal drama among colonial characters in an island setting. The passage concerns Alexander Burnham, who has traveled to an island and learned troubling news about his brother James. James apparently has a romantic history—he previously courted the tailor's daughter at Wantage, and currently loves Elizabeth Nash. However, James's rival Stanton plans to marry Kitty Trimmer, creating conflict. Alexander feels discouraged, characterizing his brother as "the same rascal—only cleverer, perhaps," suggesting James is a morally compromised womanizer. The narrative setup implies impending confrontation. Without additional context about *The Wasp* magazine's satirical targets or the broader story, the specific social commentary remains unclear. This reads as serialized melodrama rather than overt political satire.
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THE WASP 221 ite resort of theirs, through the wide windows of which the trade-wind always blows with a swishing of foliage and a hum of surf. They informed him that his brother James was a very great man; and from their somewhat mixed and aimless conversa- tion he learned that Kitty Trimmer was on the island. Now it happened that he had heard of Kitty and of James’s early affair with the daughter of the tailor of Wantage. His festive friends told him that Stanton was to marry Kitty; so he put two and two together and guessed something of the cause of the trouble between James and Stanton. He felt discouraged, for the governor had told him of Jamies’s love for Elizabeth Nash. He saw that James was the same old James, the same rascal —only cleverer, perhaps. Alexander Burnham went aboard the sloop and lay awake for a long time. Before closing his eyes he prayed that his duties in the islands might never - bring him face to face with his precious brother. _ When Elizabeth Nash first met Alexander Burn- Comichooks.com