wool-roller

Updated: May 20, 2025

A picker-up gathered the fleece with a great show of labour and care, and tabled it, to the well-ventilated disgust of old Scotty, the wool-roller. When they let the dog go he struck for home a clean-shaven poodle, except for a ferocious moustache and a tuft at the end of his tail.

Henry Lawson - While the Billy Boils