Braybrooke.
POETICAL TAVERN SIGNS.
(Vol. viii., pp. 242. 452. 626.)
I send two specimens from this neighbourhood, which may, perhaps, be worth inserting in your columns.
The first is from a public-house on the Basingstoke road, about two miles from this town. The sign-board exhibits on one side "the lively effigies" of a grenadier in full uniform, holding in his hand a foaming pot of ale, on which he gazes apparently with much complacency and satisfaction. On the other side are these lines:
"This is the Whitley Grenadier,
A noted house for famous beer.
My friend, if you should chance to call,
Beware and get not drunk withal;