Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967). Picture-Show. 1920.

17. What the Captain said at the Point-to-Point

I’VE had a good bump round; my little horse

Refused the brook first time,

Then jumped it prime;

And ran out at the double,

But of course

There’s always trouble at a double:

And then—I don’t know how

It was—he turned it up

At that big, hairy fence before the plough;

And some young silly pup

(I don’t know which),

Near as a toucher knocked me into the ditch;

But we finished full of running, and quite sound:

And anyhow I’ve had a good bump round.