The Wasp — 1891 — page 64: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertisements and a serialized story**, not political satire. The main illustration titled **"We Never Speak As We Pass By"** depicts two ragged figures in what appears to be social commentary on class divisions or urban poverty in San Francisco. The accompanying text references "Happy James" and "young Napoleon of Pine Street," suggesting a narrative about street characters. Below is **"Highton's Fifty-Seventh Deer,"** a humorous anecdote about a San Francisco hunter who shot a deer in the Shasta region. The story concerns a dispute over credit for the kill between Highton and a Native American companion named "Winton's Sam," ultimately satirizing masculine pride and the credit-taking that occurs between social classes. The remainder consists of **San Francisco business advertisements** for typewriters, tailoring, furniture, and patent medicines.