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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 28, 12 November 1897, Page 6

Advice to Gold-seekers. — To the young man who wants to know how to Pthim-elt for going to t'.ie Klondyke :— Acquire habits of industry »nd soli -control, be prepared to meet with firmness whate\er discouragements may arise, scrape together two or three times us much money tor the juumt y .i& the best estimates render necestary, — a <d don't go. The w.iy in which journalist- and others drop in upon Dr. Ibsen in Norway with the object or interviewing him is very amusing, iho grim old playwright must laugh a li. tie up his sleeve sometimes at the way in v. Inch lie nonpluses would-be interviewers by his adroit manccuvn s. One of his methods is to find out w hat language or languages his enemy is versed in and then avow himself unable to speak it to them.