The Rawlinson of the district has deciphered this inscription, and conjectures its meaning to be as follows:—
I am a cunning fox, you see;
There is no harm attached to me:
It is my master’s wish to place me here,
To let you know he sells good beer.
In King Street, Norwich, at the sign of “The Waterman,” kept by a man who is a barber and over whose door is the pole, are these lines:—
Roam not from pole to pole,
But step in here;
Where nought exceeds the shaving,
But—the beer.