72 ON SAFARI 



agricultiire, work with wliicli the noble Masai never 

 demeans himself. Here, outside the stockades, there 

 tvas a patch of cultivation whereon I observed a few 

 women and boys working in listless fashion. The out- 

 ward and visible sion of "work" consisted in their 

 having rude hoes and spades ; but two-thirds of the 

 labourers lay sleeping in the sun. Here amidst African 

 wilds one does find in real life that race which Socialist 

 tub-thumpers, with customary inexactitude, delight in 

 denouncing at home as the "idle rich." 



