The Land Of Footprints By Stewart Edward White








 -  To the friends who darted out to the line of
march, he was gracious, but he held his head high - Page 176
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To The Friends Who Darted Out To The Line Of March, He Was Gracious, But He Held His Head High, And Had No Time For Mere Persiflage.

I did not take Fundi on my second expedition, for I had no real use for a second gunbearer.

Several times subsequently I saw him on the streets of Nairobi. Always he came up to greet me, and ask solicitously if I would not give him a job. This I was unable to do. When we paid off, I had made an addition to his porter's wages, and had written him a chit. This said that the boy had the makings of a gunbearer with further training. It would have been unfair to possible white employers to have said more. Fundi was, when I left the country, precisely in the position of any young man who tries to rise in the world. He would not again take a load as porter, and he was not yet skilled enough or known enough to pick up more than stray jobs as gunbearer. Before him was struggle and hard times, with a certainty of a highly considered profession if he won through. Behind him was steady work without outlets for ambition. It was distinctly up to him to prove whether he had done well to reach for ambition, or whether he would have done better in contentment with his old lot. And that is in essence a good deal like our own world isn't it?

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