An Almanac of Twelve Sports. Rudyard Kipling

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      An Almanac of Twelve Sports

      1898

      January

      February

      March

      April

      May

      June

      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!

      1898

      July

      August

      September

      October

      November

      December

      Hunting

      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!

      January.

      Coursing

      Most men harry the world for fun —

      Each man seeks it a different way

      But "of all daft devils under the sun

      A grey'ound's the daftest" said Jorrocks J.

      February.

      Racing

      The horse is ridden – the jockey rides —

      The backers back – the owners own

      But … there are lots of things besides,