But after many strains and heaves / He got up to the Saddle eaves.

a stiff drink

Some names simply aren't appropriate after a while. Say you were called Robin, for instance. Well that's a perfectly good monicker up to the age of about nine, but pretty soon you'd have to do something about it, wouldn't you? Change your name by deed-poll to Samson, or Goliath, or something.

Twelve lowers and twelve uppers and three beds in the drawing rooms.