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WHAT THE CAPTAIN SAID AT THE POINT-TO-POINT by SIEGFRIED SASSOON

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First Line: I'VE HAD A GOOD BUMP ROUND, MY LITTLE HORSE
Last Line: AND ANYHOW I'VE HAD A GOOD BUMP ROUND.
Subject(s): ANIMALS; HORSES;
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.




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