1896. 



XXVI ABOUT "MR. DAILY PINT"; ALSO " UNDER- 

 BROOK'S 25LBS. CARP." 



4 * /WV R. Daily Pint " was an institution, an every day one, 

 / V at tne " Brownlow Arms," on the banks of the 

 Trent. He was also, or at any rate laid himself 

 out to be, a " horsebreaker." Something in the amateur way, 

 you know ; but the fiery untamed steed on the back of which 

 he usually put in an appearance was " mostlings the same old 

 'oss." He became so regular in appearing at the hostelry that 

 he was properly and popularly christened " Mr. Daily Pint." 

 His other and real name was well, we will hide it under the 

 umbrageous shade of the aspen poplars which rustle their 

 leaves day and night on the green expanse stretching away in 

 front of the " Arms " up to the river bank. He was a haw haw 

 kind of swell ; you know the kind of chap, gentle angler. But 

 for all that he was not above his beer, which he was not only a 

 good hand at but seemed to enjoy. It must not be supposed 

 that he limited himself in the course of the day to the solitary 

 pint his name suggests. Oh ! no ; horsebreaking, particularly 

 if it is the same old 'oss, is real hard work, and the sagacious 

 quadruped seemed to divine by instinct when the thirsty 

 proclivities of its rider were " at flood," and thereupon invari- 

 ably made tracks for the " Arms." " Mr. Daily Pint " would 

 saunter in his own inimitable free and easy not to call it 

 " confoundedly cheeky " manner into the private sitting room 

 of the " Arms," and would request any fair visitor to play him 

 a " chune " or sing him a song. Many a rebuff " Mr. Daily 

 Pint " received in answer to his solicitation, but he was case 

 hardened he did not know when he was snubbed. But the 

 daily pint or pints have removed him with his fiery steed to 

 regions remote from Trent side. He and his Pegasus may by 

 now be in the unknown land, but as the result of Mr. Hopper's 

 enquiries about him this year's visit, the probability points to 

 his having increased or multiplied the daily pint to such an 



