Possible Clues:

• Drum the piper's son follows?
• Drum giving rise to a couple of witty sayings
• Drum beaten with hands
• One beaten repeatedly using the cat
• His father played pipe and drum
• After stealing from the sty he beat it at the double
• It conveys news that has the man beside himself
• How grand to be in the motto of a thief! Can you beat that?
• Did one indulge in stock theft and then beat it?
• One pinched some pork and beat it