Crossword-Solution: COOMA 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

They had rung the sheds of the east and west, Had beaten the cracks of the Walgett side, And the Cooma shearers had giv'n them best -- When they saw them shear, they were satisfied.

Shearing at Castlereagh 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 make your collie dogs speak up -- what would the buyers say In London if the wool was late this year from Castlereagh? The man that 'rung' the Tubbo shed is not the ringer here, That stripling from the Cooma side can teach him how to shear.

Cooma, which is pleasantly situated at an elevation of 2657 ft., is the tourist centre for visitors to the Yarrangobilly Caves and Mount Kosciusko and its observatory.

Cooma, with a mean summer temperature of 65.4°, and a mean winter temperature of 41.4°, may be taken as illustrative of the climate of the southern tableland, and Armidale of the northern.

Our home in Glencar――A glimpse at the outside world――My parents――My schoolmasters――Donogh――Cooma-sa-harn――The eagle’s nest――“The eagle is coming back to the nest”――Alone in the world――I start for the Great Prairie――Good-bye to Glencar.