Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Invention

    Describes an invention for showing 'how far you have gone'. Consisting mostly of 'pumps, lamp-posts' and pieces of gutter, this 'complete index to conviviality' requires the user to watch 'the various phases in which common street objects present themselves to the vino-obnebulated [inebriated] imagination'. One example portrays 'the philosopher, whose duplicated vision on consulting the Bacchometer fills him with the idea that he is a quadruped provided with two latch-keys, may safely consider himself in a situation of 'How came you so?'.