Optitoggler

Dr Teareseus Jaandle was famous throughout all the land as the foremost sightmonger, whose spectacleforging and optitgoogling (optometry in common parlance) were renowned near and far. However, he made a rather shortsighted business decision by building his sightmongery shop on the side of a great volcano, Mount Edna. As volcanoes are want to do when they are angry it belched forth great sulphorous burps of magma and rather pongy gases. Poor Dr Jaandle rather lost it all as everything from his surgery to his corn and kidney sandwich neatly wrapped up in brown grease paper lovingly prepared for his luncheon was melted or burnt to ash. How his tears flowed as he lamented his foolery and loss. But his bespectacled friends pitched together and out of the ashes, and much tinkering at the Noscot forgeworks, a new and marvellous thing an Optitoggler. Better than a stationary shop, this movable marvel (which had more than a passing resemblance to old Jaandle himself) was able to toddle off here and there to wherever the poorly sighted reposed. Jaandle’s reputation soared and swooped on the dizzy heights of fame among all the speccyfolk of the land. Remaining humble, Jaandle however never lost sight of the simple fact that he was a silly baboon for having built his shop on the side of a smoking crater full of molten hot-stuff, which is why with all his newfound wealth, he built his retirement home in the middle of a vast dried riverbed. He couldn’t see what would go wrong there.