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

The Fire at Ross's Farm The squatter saw his pastures wide Decrease, as one by one The farmers moving to the west Selected on his run; Selectors took the water up And all the black soil round; The best grass-land the squatter had Was spoilt by Ross's Ground.

Sometimes a youngster would timidly ask Greenhide Billy about the 'terra incognita': “What sort of a place is it, Billy--how big are the properties? How many acres had you in the place you were on?” “Acres be d----d!” Billy would scornfully reply; “hear him talking about acres! D'ye think we were blanked cockatoo selectors! Out there we reckon country by the hundred miles.

There are, however, exceptional cases in which the males are the selectors, instead of having been the selected.

With respect to the other form of sexual selection (which with the lower animals is much the more common), namely, when the females are the selectors, and accept only those males which excite or charm them most, we have reason to believe that it formerly acted on our progenitors.

When you think of it, it is astonishing that this department should not be in the hands of the ablest men, accomplished scholars, philosophical observers, discriminating selectors of the news of the world that is worth thinking over and talking about.