Genre:

Essay, Drollery

Subjects:

Railway, Engineers, Engineering

    Describes a scene in the author's coal cellar in which the author's dog has a railway engineer's leg 'clasped in its teeth'. A railway surveyor, who was calculating the cellar's 'facilities for a tunnel', has fallen into a water-butt while investigating the 'practicability of a cutting'. Warns 'all surveyors and engineers in England' of the dog.