Story: Rural language All images & media From page 1 – The evolution of rural language ‘An English landscape’ (1st of 2) The bush (2nd of 2) The colonial adjective No. 8 wire sculpture The bobby truck From page 2 – Māori influences Travelling on a mōkihi A futtah on a sheep station Piripiri or biddy-bid Nāti T-shirt Settler whare From page 3 – Settling the land Land fever Spotting on a sheep station Snig-track Bush language (1st of 2) Bush lawyer (2nd of 2) A rural kingdom From page 4 – Farming difficulties Hairy shaker disease A kea’d sheep Tutu berries Spaniard (1st of 2) Wild Irishman (2nd of 2) The big dry From page 5 – Sheep and dairy farming High country musterers Pakihi Tree dozer Taranaki gate From page 6 – Farm work and workers The language of mustering Nor’west arch Snow-raking Blade shearing The cream stand From page 7 – Farm animals Shrek the hermit sheep F. W. Dry and a Drysdale Eye dog at work Blowout A pigtail From page 8 – Economics and marketing Sharemilker’s cottage Directions to a farmstay Job advertisement Prime lamb Cervena