SNIKMIT.—Your conundrum was received in 1846, and has been in type
ever since. We shall probably be able to find room for it in the
course of a few years. Do not be impatient. We have all had our
beginnings.
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.