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day's work to visit them ; and it is generally a case 

 of having said good-bye to cricket, lawn tennis, 

 billiards, and other amusements that are so attractive 

 in early life. But against these we have the healthy 

 open life, in most parts good shooting, any amount of 

 riding, and above all, the most perfect independence to 

 be had anywhere in the world. In England the landed 

 gentry are always envied for the independence their 

 position gives them, but their independence is hampered 

 by numerous conventionalities of which the well-to-do 

 Cape farmer is independent ; whilst if he has had 

 the good sense when he left England to determine that 

 the Cape should be his home for good, he will soon 

 find his interest in colonial institutions and politics 

 growing upon him, and himself possessed of nearly 

 all the advantages in another sphere that the English 

 landed gentleman has in his. No greater mistake is 

 ever made than that made by the man who emigrates to 

 a colony simply with the idea of grubbing money 

 together to enable him to return to England and spend 

 it in his old age. But few succeed till so many years 

 have passed that their zest for English amusements and 

 ways has gone, and their English friends and relations 

 have changed so much that they seem almost as 

 strangers. 



To struggle to amass wealth simply with the idea 



