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All contributions for insertion in the "Wild Goose" must be sent to our office not later than Wednesday night; and we wish earnestly to impress on our valued correspondents that "brevity is the soul of wit."

T.M$c$F—The subject treated is too profound for a journal like "Wild Goose." We will be happy if you will kindly favour us with any lighter matter.

P.O'R.—held over till next week.

D.B.—You say you have lost your stockings, etc.; Well, you may try on the ship's hose if you like, but we don't advise it.

Amphitrite.—Do you wish to come a-tween-us.

Medicus.—The light of a rope is not considered dangerous. Apply a cabbage leaf to the wound.

Antonio.—St. Paul's is a beautiful rock, of coral formation, near the line. It was discovered by Sir Christopher Wren.

Sinbad.—Polarized light is that used during the long nights by persons who live at the poles. It is produced by the friction of the earth on its axis, and is occasionally visible in those latitudes, where it is called the Aurora Borealis.

Dickey Sam.—Yes, in calm weather, when the ship cannot make any knots, the captain compels the sailors to make some.

Bill Sykes.—The aborigines of Australia said their Convicts to Low island, in the Dangerous Archipelago.

Sea Dog.—The usual food of the "Wild goose" is plum duff, lime juice, soft tart, cigars, sherry, and other luxuries of that sort. Try us.



The public— our public—are just now afflicted with the usual accompaniments of such a voyage as ours—monotony and melancholy—two goblins we earnestly wish to vanquish; and, lest our weekly efforts to cater for the general amusement should prove insufficient to banish them, we suggest to our readers that they should not alone trust to be passively amused by the "Wild Goose," but that each should endeavour to contribute his quota to the public stock,—the surest way to overcome both one and the other. Let us then cheerfully draw on memory and imagination, and invoke that good genius, Self-Reliance, by whom, if once inspired, man never fails in his efforts to attain the Great, the Good, or the Beautiful.

Self-Reliance! What a host of strength is in the mere name! 'Tis but to say "I will," and already the battle is more