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Australia they hang the scions of our upper classes to 
the nearest tree is, one hopes, merely another political 
exaggeration). Why is this ? As I read them the 
charges against our friend amount to these:— 
That he arrives out from home with a great and 
entirely unjustified opinion of himself. 
That, though keen, active, and tireless at games or 
sport, he is physically incapable of and unwilling to do 
continuous manual labour. 
That his ignorance of all farming and practical 
matters is colossal and complete. 
That he holds certain kinds of work menial and 
objectionable, more especially the cooking of food and 
making of beds after the days work is finished. 
That he is not companionable and makes no attempt 
to throw himself into the conditions of life in which he 
finds himself. 
To this the public-school boy retorts : 
That he has been taught, and he believes rightly, to 
hold himself the salt of the earth, and that from his 
inspection of the colonist he sees no reason to change 
that opinion. 
That the life offered in these Colonies is one long 
drudgery, relieved by very few attractions in the way 
of sport or amusement. 
That on his return from a long day’s labour the 
worst task remains to be done in preparing his lodging 
and cooking his food ; with the result that he frequently 
goes to bed insufficiently, or rather unsuitably, fed. 
That, though he freely admits that the native-born 
with whom he associates are first-class fellows, he 
nevertheless has little common ground with them, and 
that from his point of view they are imperfectly 
educated. 
