72 SOLDIER AND SPORTSMAN 



Stakes, National Breeders Stakes (Sandown), 

 Doncaster Champagne Stakes, Rous Memorial 

 (Newmarket), and the Middle Park and Dewhurst 

 Plates at Newmarket. Democrat in all the above 

 races was ridden by Tod Sloan. 



When the ereat statue of Lord Kitchener was 

 completed he was not quite pleased with the 

 depiction of his style in the saddle. 



At the time of the sad calamity in which K. of K. 

 and his A.D.C., Captain Fitzgerald, met their end, 

 I recollect that some person, seeking an appropriate 

 epitaph, sent the following suggestion to The Times. 

 As I have never seen the same since in print, I 

 reproduce it here : 



5n /IReniors of 

 VISCOUNT KITCHENER OF KHARTOUM 



B or 71 June 24/// 1850 

 Died June c^th 1916 



"and say to all the world, 

 that was a man." 



The happy sun said he will rise again, 



Who twice victorious did our Navy see. 

 And I alone must see him rise again in vain, 



Without one ray of all his star for me. 

 Yet like an English General will I die. 



And all the ocean make my spacious grave. 

 Women and cowards on the land may lie, 



The sea's a tomb that opens for the brave. 



Drvden. 



