Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #24 — page 54: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains three humor pieces with no illustrations: 1. **"What a Pity"**: A joke about an atheist's funeral—the irony being that despite looking presentable in death, he has "no place to go" (implying Hell). 2. **"Zoology"**: A poem playing on animal metaphors in romantic relationships, with puns (the final "nothing gnu" puns on "nothing new"). 3. **"Our London Report"**: A satirical anecdote mocking both a busybody reformer and a young smoker's financial hypocrisy. The reformer lectures about cigar savings, claiming to own a building through thrift; the youth deflates him by revealing he already owns his building—implying inherited wealth rather than earned restraint. The satire targets moral busybodies, religious hypocrisy, and class assumptions about financial virtue.