The Wasp — 1914 — page 45: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains narrative text rather than a cartoon. It depicts a violent fantasy sequence involving a character named Burnham who dreams of (and then apparently enacts) murdering a man named Peter Queery. The narrative describes multiple shifting scenes—a drugged sleep, London lodgings, a Kingston wine-shop—before Queery's death in a boat. The passage ends with apocalyptic imagery: Burnham rises triumphantly as the sky fills with "fearful, bright lights" and the sea becomes "a sea of fire." Without additional context about *The Wasp's* publication date or the identities of these figures, the specific political or social satire remains unclear. This appears to be either serialized fiction or a commentary on a contemporary figure or event, but the exact reference cannot be determined from this page alone.