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master and the one whom they prefer is the old public- 

 school boy. His very faults, as I have said, are in 

 his favour. Thus, he has a great, perhaps an 

 exaggerated, opinion of himself; this opinion is apt 

 soon to be shared by his natives, ever prone to take 

 a man at his own valuation. Again, he spends, 

 perhaps wastes, much of his time at sport, but this 

 is appreciated on the farm, where many of the 

 labourers are, when they get the chance, hunters 

 themselves and practically all are voracious eaters of 

 fish, flesh, and fowl. His very ignorance of farming 

 is far from an unmixed evil in a land where conditions 

 are so new, where so much has to be learnt afresh, and 

 so many old theories are absolutely discarded. And 

 then those virtues which furnish the hall-mark of his 

 caste — honour, scrupulous fairness, temper well held 

 in check but not dead, and last, but far from least, a 

 sense of humour — endear him most of all, arid enable 

 many a man to obtain and hold labour for which his 

 neighbour, perhaps in many respects the better man, 

 offers in vain a higher wage. 



Let us map out the opening career of a young man 

 of, say, twenty-one, who on leaving the University 

 decides to come out to the Protectorate. In the first 

 place, I would strongly advise him to continue — and 

 in this case it would really mean continue, and not 

 recommence — his education by entering some large 

 estate or joining some old school friend as a pupil. 

 There are plenty such who would be ready and 

 willing to take him, board him, and teach him at from 

 ;£ioo to ^200 for a year, which sum the experience 

 gained would far more than repay. He will be wise 

 if he selects as the scene of his pupilage a farm 

 where as many different branches as possible are 



