Show Tavern Signs Burled Whenever an Inn on the Cumberland Cumber-land estates of the Howards earls of Carlisle loses Its license the Inn sign Is hurled The obsequies take place at dead of night in the presence of as many of the old customers as can be collected As a sort of libation a bot tlo of spirits generally whisky Is poured Into the grave and an appropriate appro-priate burial service repeated The temperance advocates In the crowd cheer lustily and tho droughty element ele-ment become mock mourners or jesters Jest-ers as the fancy takes them The strains of a concertina or some similar simi-lar Instrument usually help to enliven tho proceedings The last Inn to have Its sign hurled was the Moor Cock at Ianercost whose license was taken tak-en away by the Brampton justices |