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ON SAFARI 
agriculture, work with which the noble Masai never 
demeans himself. Here, outside the stockades, there 
was a patch of cultivation whereon I observed a few 
women and boys working in listless fashion. The out¬ 
ward and visible sign of 4 ‘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.” 
