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Let US hope he will have learnt that a man cannot 

 really succeed at more than one thing at a time ; that 

 an Ostrich-farmer's business is to make his birds and his 

 cattle increase, and produce the greatest quantity and 

 best quality of feathers possible, and that even if he is 

 successful with a few speculations, he will have lost quite 

 as much by their interference with his proper business as 

 he made. That if he takes money wanted in his proper 

 business to speculate with, it will inevitably be attended 

 with loss ; whilst if he does it on credit, sooner or latei- 

 his experience will be that of Juvenis. 



As we have seen in former chapters, unless Juvenis' s 

 capital fund to invest at starting was counted in thou- 

 sands, he will at first be obliged to use credit in some 

 form, even on a hired farm, and consequently a con- 

 siderable portion of his earnings wull go to the capitalist ; 

 but if he is strictly economical and fairly successful, a 

 few years will see him out of debt, and the whole stock 

 his own ; but by this time his lease will probably be 

 nearly expired, and his landlord will not re-let, or if lie 

 will re-let, will not make the improvements which Juvenis 

 feels he cannot do without. His stock is now so large 

 that he cannot do without more fencing, he has already 

 got as much bush fencing as he can keep in repair; 

 wure or stone wall means sinking capital on another 

 man's property ; besides, his breeding birds are so 



