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Show Funny Old Signs. One of tho most notable of old Lon- 1 don signs, "Tho Dog's Head in tho H Iron Pot," had Its beginning in 'tho early years of tho reign of that samo f bluff King Hal, says St. Nicholas." It stands out, a lonely ftguro on Black-friars Black-friars road at tho corner of Charlotfe street, tho sign of a wholesale ironmonger's iron-monger's establishment. Tho dog Is - J in the act of eating out of a threo- i legged Iron pot which it has over- 1 turnod. There wero ulso "Tho Black . I Dog" and "The Dog and Duck." ."The 1 Whlto- Greyhound" was tho sign ol j John Harrison In St. Paul's church. yard, a bookseller who published soma of Shakospcare's early works. |