Редьярд Джозеф Киплинг
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.