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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, and 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 
