29 AUGUST 1925, Page 14

THE BLACKSMITH'S STROKE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

• do not know whether attention has ever been drawn to the blacksmith's habit of striking on the anvil only between the strokes on the metal ; or what it is that prompts such a custom. I observed it last week, at Sturry, near Canterbury. The only answer I got was, " It's music." I should like to have pursued the subject with my friend, but the roaring forge prevented conversation.—I am, Sir, &c.,