15 DECEMBER 1917, Page 13

" SHEFFIELD IN A TRENCH."

(To TUE EDITOR Or VII SPECTATOR."1

Sia.—Nothing gave my son greater pleasure when in France— until his leg was smashed, hopelessly, and he was invalided home —than to receive the weekly Spectator, and now, at Reehampton he is equally pleased when his old friend arrives. He had seen. earlier in the year, that excellent little poem " Sheffield in a Trench " by "A Sheffield Lad." He showed it to a friend at home, a real "Sheffield Blade," who wrote the enclosed :insurer in his own native Doric. Not bad for a real worker at the anvil ?—