Genre:

Essay, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct. [3]

Subjects:

Railways, Invention, Amusement, Travel, Transport

    Suggests a solution to the taxing problems of 'communicating between the guards and passengers' on railways: a wooden figure, 'known in the nursery by the name of scaramouches', whose face and limbs can be made to express appropriate signals 'by means of a string'.