One of the things I thoroughly enjoyed about this story was the dialogue. It had a very natural, believable flow to it. I had no problem envisioning the shearers talking to each other.

One of the major problems I had with this short story was with the punctuation. For instance, there is a glaring lack of use of an apostrophe followed by the letter “s” to indicate possession or ownership. For example, in the sentence

After a time they ruffled the boys hair and trudged back to the stands

It should be boy’s, and not boys, to indicate whose hair is being ruffled.

Thus was a very good story, but could use some editing.