The Wasp, 1918 · page 200 of 330
The Wasp — 1918 — page 200: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **serialized fiction narrative**, not a cartoon. It's from *The Wasp*, a satirical magazine, but this particular page presents dramatic prose rather than visual satire. The text describes a romantic plot involving multiple characters: James Burnham (described as a "rascal"), his brother Alexander Burnham (who has come to an island), Elizabeth Nash (whom James loves), and Kitty Trimmer (whom another man, Stanton, plans to marry). The narrative reveals that Elizabeth Nash is emotionally affected upon meeting Alexander, mistaking him for or confusing him with his brother James—the man she has idealized in her heart. The passage emphasizes her romantic delusion: she sees "James as she had dreamed of" in Alexander. **For modern readers**: This appears to be a melodramatic Victorian-era serial featuring romantic misunderstandings and moral ambiguity—typical magazine fiction of the period. Without seeing earlier installments, the specific satirical target (if any) remains unclear.
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THE WASP TG) a very reat man ; aid he their somewhat mixed and aimless conversation 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 James’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 island might never bring him face to face with his precious brother. When Elizabeth Nash first met Alexander » Burnham she lost colour, swayed, and laid a hand on her father’s arm for support; but her fine eyes brightened with a wonderful light at the back of them. This was the romantic being that she had built of gratitude and admiration in her deep heart about the person of James Burn- ham. This was James as she had dreamed of comichooks.com