leg-roping

Updated: September 16, 2025

I went and helped Aileen to milk her cows, nine or ten of them there were, a fairish morning's work for one girl; mothering the calves, bailing up, leg-roping, and all the rest of it. We could milk well, all three of us, and mother too, when she was younger. Women are used to cattle in Ireland, and England too. The men don't milk there, I hear tell. That wouldn't work here.

Rolf Boldrewood - Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields