The Drover's Wife
Across
- 3. Rarely, occasionally, not often.
- 5. "She loves her children but has no ____ to show it."
- 6. The drover's wife has "a very keen sense of the..."
- 7. A contagious form of pneumonia affecting livestock.
- 9. A word to describe some of the bushman or sundowners who aren't to be trusted.
- 10. Thin, bony and weathered.
- 13. A bushman who shows up too late to work but just in time for dinner.
- 15. A natural event that prompts the drover's wife to reminisce about earlier natural disasters.
- 16. A baby carriage; a pram.
Down
- 1. When the rain falls heavily, it falls in...
- 2. Trousers made of durable fabric, often worn for horse riding or heavy duty farm work.
- 4. A cheeky or mischievous little boy.
- 8. A word to describe clothes (or people) that are worn and torn.
- 11. To release or liberate.
- 12. Some who occupies (but does not own) Crown owned land, using it for grazing cattle.
- 14. Someone who moves livestock/cattle over long distances.