At the bottom of the hill is the village smithy, the well, a farm, and facing a big elm tree is the inn, bearing a great hatchment-like signboard showing the Fauconberg arms and motto.

The shops, too, and more especially the inns, flaunted gaudy signboards with ingenious devices.

You know our signboard over there, 'Welcome to friend or stranger!'

The bus was not a pleasant place for me after that, so I dropped off in Plaza Moraga, when I observed the signboard of the very bank mentioned.

And in Charing Cross Roadit was the curst accident of fateI saw the signboard of the celebrated old firm of publishers, Oakley and Dalbiac.