Walter the Doubter.—The circulation of the Comic Almanack is eight millions. The editor's salary is ten thousand a year. But these things are not done for money.
J.—Your offer has had our most careful consideration. We fear that a novel in ten books, each containing eighty chapters, to be published at the rate of a chapter per year, will scarcely suit our publication. It would be difficult to sustain the interest for so long a period and at such considerable intervals.
Worrit.—There are three thousand and ninety-five editions of Uncle Tom's Cabin published. It is estimated that every adult Briton has purchased nine copies of that remarkable work and read them all.
Julianetta says she could love us madly if she could make up her mind to believe that we don't dye our whiskers. We do.
Rum Dickey assures us he is just the fellow for our money. He is very clever at finding out conundrums; knows three comic songs; and has a friend who is intimate with an Ethiopian serenader. We will think of it.
Walkinshaw.—Our pay is nineteen and sixpence per line for prose—two guineas for verse; only we don't accept contributions.
Wapshot informs us that he has occupied all his leisure hours for the last twelve months in trying to find out the rebus, signed "Lilly," in last year's Comic Almanack. He hopes, after all the trouble he has taken, we will not publish any other answer to it till his arrives. We pledge him our honour.
Enquiros wishes us to inform him the day of the month, and in what year, Julius Cæsar landed in Britain; the number of lines in the Iliad; what we consider the best receipt for tartar in the teeth; whether Mrs. Glover ever played Ophelia or not in early life—and if she did, at what theatre, and to whose Rosencrantz; how he had better set to work to obtain a commission in the army without interest; if A pegs one too many by accident, has B a right to score four; which year's volume of the Little Warbler we would recommend for general purposes, in preference to the others; and if we know of a good shop for elastic trousers. Perhaps some of our readers will oblige him with an answer.
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