An Almanac of Twelve Sports

By William Nicholson
Words by Rudyard Kipling
Published by R. H. Russell. New York. 1898.


Here is a horse to tame— Here is a gun to handle— God knows you can enter the game If you'll only pay for the same, And the price of the game is a candle— One single flickering candle!


Certes it is a noble sport And men have quitted selle and swum for't, But I am of a meeker sort And I prefer Surtees in comfort.
Reach down my Handley Cross again. My run, where never danger lurks, is With Jorrocks and his deathless train Pigg, Binjimin and Arterxerxes!