Este.
Poetical Tavern Signs (Vol. viii., p. 242.).—I would add the following sign-inscription to those noted by R. C. Warde. It was on the walls of a tavern half-way up Richmond Hill, three miles south of Douglas, Isle of Man, kept by a man of the name of Abraham Lowe:
"I'm Abraham Lowe, and half-way up the hill,
If I were higher up, what's funnier still,
I should be belowe. Come in and take your fill
Of porter, ale, wine, spirits, what you will.
Step in, my friend, I pray no farther go;
My prices, like myself, are always low."
J. G. C.
Unkid (Vol. viii., p. 221.).—Is not the word hunks, so common in people's mouths,—An old hunks, an old miser or miserable wretch, to be referred to the same derivation as unkid, hunkid?