<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344055" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Shearing at Castlereagh</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bell is set a-ringing, and the engine gives a toot,<br>There's five and thirty shearers here are shearing for the loot,<br>So stir yourselves, you penners-up, and shove the sheep along,<br>The musterers are fetching them a hundred thousand strong,<br>And make your collie dogs speak up - what would the buyers say<br>In London if the wool was late this year from Castlereagh?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The man that ‘rung' the Tubbo shed is not the ringer here,<br>That stripling from the Cooma side can teach him how to shear.<br>They trim away the ragged locks, and rip the cutter goes,<br>And leaves a track of snowy fleece from brisket to the nose;<br>It's lovely how they peel it off with never stop nor stay,<br>They're racing for the ringer's place this year at Castlereagh.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The man that keeps the cutters sharp is growling in his cage,<br>He's always in a hurry and he's always in a rage - <br>‘You clumsy-fisted mutton-heads, you'd turn a fellow sick,<br>‘You pass yourselves as shearers, you were born to swing a pick.<br>Another broken cutter here, that's two you've broke to-day,<br>It's awful how such crawlers come to shear at Castlereagh.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The youngsters picking up the fleece enjoy the merry din,<br>They throw the classer up the fleece, he throws it to the bin;<br>The pressers standing by the rack are waiting for the wool,<br>There's room for just a couple more, the press is nearly full;<br>Now jump upon the lever, lads, and heave and heave away,<br>Another bale of golden fleece is branded ‘Castlereagh'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Barton+Paterson">Andrew Barton Paterson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344055" data-title="Shearing at Castlereagh de Andrew Barton Paterson" data-description="The bell is set a-ringing, and the engine gives a toot, There's five and thirty shearers here are shearing for the loot, So stir yourselves, you penners-up, and shove the sheep along, The musterers are fetching them a hundred thousand strong, And ..."></div> </div> </div>

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