a thin strip of iron about 200 mm. long and 20 mm broad, sharpened to a cutting edge at one end. When the fire was hot enough, he put the bits of metal into a small mud crucible and buried it in the red-hot coals. Then, whilst the boy bent to his work with renewed energy, he Look a brick and… … ble out of the fire with his long tongs and Fig. 3. Rubber pattern for ring. upset the molten mass into the groove in the brick. When cooled it was about the size, and very much the shape, of a date- stone (25 mm. by 40 mm. by 5 mm.). On attempting to hammer it on his anvil with a European hammer,…
