The Wasp — 1914 — page 61: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains narrative fiction rather than political cartoons. The text depicts a pirate ship scene featuring a character named Hellfire Hicks, who has a reward (200 pounds alive, 100 pounds dead). The protagonist, James Burnham, shows "scornful interest" in Hicks rather than compassion. Young Henry Todd brings food to the prisoner, and Todd asks Burnham to help him join a pirate crew, complaining about starvation and mistreatment aboard the current ship. Todd expresses a desire to escape his circumstances through piracy. Without additional context or visible illustrations, the specific satirical target remains unclear. This appears to be adventure fiction serialized in the magazine rather than political satire.