Doing your best when recipients are worst guarantees self respect

The author and journalist Robert Ruark treated himself to a safari in 1951 and made subsequent return trips to hunt what was then British East Africa thereafter. In land that is Kenya and Tanzania today, he came to know many of the professional hunting guides. He hunted with the best, and he came to know the other kinds as well. The best had one defining principle in common: they graded their own performances for themselves alone. At the time, an African safari was an extended car camping trip into the back of furthest beyond near the equator on the eastern side of the continent. Areas of wildest veldt unmarred by the hand of man drew hunters who came to camp and see and...