“WOOL IS UP!”
"Wool is up,’’ remarks a squatter as he stands on the station stops and surveys the broad brown lands that are his. 4 ’Wool is up!" shouts the mailman to a drover as ho passes him on a dusty road. And at the close of day, when the drover camps on some reserve near a tiny holding he yells at the top of his voice to the owner, "Hi, hi, there! Wool is up!” "Eh! What’s that!" cries the cocky, and the drover repeats, "Wool is up!" "Wool is up!” He whole countryside takes up the glorious refrain. To the rattle of the milk cans in the morning. to the barking of the dogs at night, to the passing of a train, to the npsperiiig of a breeje, to the ggptygl
of a creek (if there’s any water in it). "Wool is up!” Now is the time of shearing in the far Western sheds. Can’t you hear the engines beating out the tune, "Wool is up,” and as a fleece falls can’t you see a sweating shearer stretch upward for a minute and whisper to the rouseabout, "Wool is up,” while a very white newly released sheep stumbles out into the sunshine and, turning, bleats balefully, "Wool is Up.” Out there in the great West country, Dorothy Cottrell’s dear land of the "Singing Gold” is a joy and glad* ness far beyond the ken of city folk. For what person who has never known' it can understand the magic of the words, "Wool is up!”—Margaret Beth Lucas, in the "Sydney Morning Herald.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 227, 7 September 1933, Page 11
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265“WOOL IS UP!” Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 227, 7 September 1933, Page 11
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