Rather than mock a tradition more than 500 years old, Yorkatt & Eric (Evening Press, July 10) should join one of the local Morris teams because we always need recruits.

With their four legs they should be twice as nimble as humans and could have twice as many bells. Alternatively, our fiddlers point out that the best strings for violins are made of cat gut...

Jonathan Brockbank,

Ebor Morris,

Scarcroft Hill, York.

Updated: 11:17 Tuesday, July 13, 2004