The Drover's Wife

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.

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.