The HORSE AND TIGER, at Rotherham, is said to refer to the accident in a travelling menagerie which took place many years ago, when the tiger broke loose and sprang upon the leaders of a passing mail coach, although visitors from London generally suppose the “tiger” to mean the spruce groom, or horse attendant, coming from the country to London in such numbers. Even that poor hack, the MANAGE HORSE, is not forgotten, as he may be seen going through his paces before a public-house in Cottles Lane, Bath. In one of the turnings in Cannon Street, City, there is an old sign of the HORSE AND DORSITER, which is simply an old rendering of the more common PACK HORSE, formerly the usual sign of a posting inn. No doubt the FRIGHTED HORSE, which occurs in many places, belongs to this class of horses,--the expression “fright” being a corruption of _freight_. Some publicans who, with their trade combine the calling of farrier, set up the sign of the HORSE AND FARRIER,--in Ireland rendered as the BLEEDING HORSE. A Dutch farrier in the village of Schagen, in the seventeenth century, put up the sign of the WHITE HORSE, and wrote under it the following very philosophical verse:-- “In ’t witte Paard worden de paarden haar voeten met yzer beslagen Dat men de menschen dat mee kon doen zy hoefden dan geen schoenen te dragen.”[240] The HORSE AND STAG, (Finningley, Nottinghamshire,) and the HORSE AND GATE, are both hunting signs; yet the last may have been suggested by the Bull and Gate. The HORSE AND TRUMPET is a very common sign, illustrating the war horse; the HORSE AND CHAISE (or shaze, as it is spelled) in the Broad _Centry_, (sanctuary,) Westminster, is named in an advertisement in the _Postboy_, Jan. 23-25, 1711; whilst the CHAISE AND PAIR is still to be seen at Northill, Colchester.