Crossword-Solution: MUSTERERS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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.

All the shearers were fast asleep in the men's hut, whilst every available nook and corner was filled with the spare hands; the musterers, branders, yard-keepers, and many others, whose duties were less-defined.

Two of the musterers were told off to take the sheep to their new tank, for their own dust had set them bleating for a drink; the rest lit their pipes and turned their horses' heads for home; but Ives was instructed to stop at the rabbiter's camp and tell him whom to expect.

Truly, for a fool of my experience, I have but little wisdom: and yet a camp suits well with my humour; take away the fighting--the sleeping in a field--the bad fare--the long marches, and the short pay--and a soldier's is a rare merry life.--Here come two more musterers--troth we have need of them--for, considering the goodness of the cause, they drop in as sparingly as mites into a poor's box.

Aston, in a paper on the Kaikoura Mountains, speaks of the half-wild cats which are found about deserted fencers’ and musterers’ camps as retaining “all their love for man’s comradeship if encouraged, but they invariably refuse to eat anything that they have not killed themselves.