The Florida agriculturist., 1889-07-03
"Not for scholarship"

was, was too good fellow was the
most popular fellow in Eton, at the time
| left it; had documentary evidence of
that"
Documentary"
eyes. When boy leaves Eton, the
fellows who liked him each give him
book something swell, you know, bound
In calf, and all that, such as he will be
sure not to spoil by reading it too much.
Well. got hundred and eighty of
those leaving books, as they call 'em."
IA popular library!'
'"Yes, and all gone now, like the popu-
larity. 1t was the same way at Oxford,
only bigger bills and less innocence. But
the governor paid up like man, and
then got me clerkship in the foreign of
fice IF he had made me chief secretary
of foreign affairs. might have buckled
down to business: but the clerkship only
made bad worse Easy hours, light
work. OF course went out into society,
head over ears. No end of friends-lots
of popularity You never saw such a
clever, good looking, good humored chap
as was. had no time to waste in my
office; my chiefs began to growl; at last
father called me up, told me was no
good and that he was tired paying for it;
gave me two thousand pounds and an
outfit and packed me off to New Zealand.
It was to be sink or swim, as luck might
have it. but no more life preservers from
the old gentlemanl'
"Were you popular there, too2"
"It's every man for himself there. l
went to Napier-Hawke's Bay-the best
sheep farming country in the colony.
There ran across chap / had known
at Eton, Cartwright Brown his name
was; he had station Chats what they
call ranch out there), Matapiro, OH the
banks of the Ngararoro river. Well,
Cartwright initiated me into the myster-
les of sheep farming, docking, failing,
and all the rest of it. Very different
from Mayfair and Piccadilly, can tell
you"
"Was there no society out there?"
every entertaining society in Napier,
and plenty of it. Oh, yes, there are
women everywhere" I" said Valentine; and
he was silent for time. and seemed to
lose himself in revery ''There was
neighbor of Browns, Hector Pope. be-
tween us and Napier; invested my
money in his ranch, and got to spending
good deal of my time there and at the
club in town. I didn't scrimp myself
much: | kept couple of race horses
and played unlimited loo at the club;
my sheep and my other investments had
to take care of themselves. You can
imagine what the end would be, with
| out my telling you.
"Mr. Martin" said Pauline, ''you have
left out something! You would not
have gone on in that way if you had not
had some experience that influenced
you." He raised his head and looked at
her; after moment she added, II don't
mean that you Should tell it. You lost
your money, you were saying?
'All but fifty pounds, and heap of
| clothes. / packed the clothes in my
trunks, forty of the fifty pounds handed
to Brown to employ as events might re-
quire; and ] was just on the point of
shipping for Australia when a Maori
outbreak In the Taupo district was re-
ported. came to the conclusion that
was probably born to be shot; SO en-
tered the service as full private in the
Armed Constabulary. You have heard
of the Irish Constabulary. This was
something Of the same sort.
II enjoyed that campaign more than