i8 Notes on South African Hunting, 
A Rich Foundation. 
few months. One pay-day he was in the street 
which is called short; so when the Boer came 
for payment he looked over the bill, and 
remarked that it was large. The Boer said it 
must be right, as he had made out the items by 
a Ready Reckoner. Said the astute one Have 
you the book by you ? ” The Boer produced it, 
and the items were carefully compared, and 
nothing wrong found. The debtor closed the 
book, and was handing it back to its owner, 
when the date on the cover caught his eye. 
Said he Why—God bless me—eh—wh}^ this 
is a last year’s Ready Reckoner.” You don’t 
say so,” said the Boer, ‘^give me my bill 
and I will alter it at once.” And he did. 
The natural consequence of a large concourse 
of diggers was that some should be successful, 
and others the reverse. The successful ones 
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soon bought out their neighbours, formed com¬ 
panies, and issued scrip.” I need, perhaps, 
hardly explain the nature of scrip.” The 
result of it, in the present day in South Africa, 
is that every second old colonial one meets, has 
at some time nearly made an enormous fortune, 
but just didn’t. The old stories of the abund- 
