Wooler

A big band of bleating sheep on the way to the loading pens at the station blocked her way where she would have crossed the street to Symes's house. She swore in a frenzy of impatience as she waited for them to pass in the cloud of choking dust raised by their tiny, pointed hoofs. ¶ "Way 'round 'em, Shep!" The voice was familiar. "Hullo, Doc!" The Sheep King of Poison Creek waved a grimy, genial hand. ¶ "Hurry your infernal woolers along, can't you?" she yelled in response.

"Why, what a shame!" Kate cried. "Snow Queen was one of the best woolers. They thought she would surely win at the stock show. They'll have to build that fence higher, won't they?"

With a cost of $1.00 to $2.00 per rabbit for feed, the profit should be at or near $5.00 per rabbit from good woolers which produce approximately one pound of wool each per year.

Angora wool farmers have always selected their breeding stock on the basis of each rabbit's performance as a wooler — indeed, this has been done to such effect that the wool yield of does has increased probably five-fold in the last 100 years.

The breeder who sells the rabbits at a very early age could very well be selling excellent woolers or possibly only average producers, only time will tell.

He was fined another twenty pounds for usury after charging a local wooler — a Protestant — twenty pounds for a short-term hundred-pound loan.

By six p.m., many of the town's residents have shown up to hear the traveling preacher. Standing in front of nearly seventy-five people, Francis peruses the gathering made up of village woolers, men and women who work sheep's wool for export.

"See there, men?" spat Lord Geoffrey. "There's justice yet! Reeve Edgar le Sherman, honest and fair," he mocked, "defrauding his own fellows for gain. Funneling my money to a Flemish woolers' uprising! Remember this: anyone who steals from a lord steals bread from your own table. Today you did your duty and caught the thief!"