certain things will be brought home to you with simple 

 directness : that, sufficient unto the yeast is the loaf it 

 has to make ; that, there is only one person who has 

 got to learn from you yourself ; and that, it is better 

 to be still, for if you keep your knowledge to yourself 

 you keep your ignorance from others. 



A marked span brands the driver. The scored 

 bullock may be a rogue or may be a sulky obstinate 

 brute ; but the chances are he is either badly trained 

 or overworked, and the whip only makes matters 

 worse ; the beginner cannot judge, and the oxen surfer. 

 Indeed, the beginner may well fail in the task, for there 

 are many and great differences in the temperaments 

 and characters of oxen, just as there are in other 

 animals or in human beings. Once in Mashonaland, 

 when lions broke into a kraal and killed and ate two 

 donkeys out of a mixed lot, the mules were found next 

 day twenty miles away ; some of the oxen ran for 

 several miles, and some stopped within a few hundred 

 yards ; two men who had been roused by the uproar 

 saw in the moonlight one old bullock stroll out through 

 the gap in the kraal and stop to scratch his back with 

 his horn ; and three others were contentedly dozing 

 within ten yards of the half-eaten donkeys when we 

 went to the kraal in the early morning and found out 

 what had happened 



There are no two alike ! You find them nervous and 

 lethargic, timid and bold, independent and sociable, 

 exceptional and ordinary, willing 

 and sulky, restless and content, 

 staunch and faint-hearted 



