Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1911 — THE HERDER’S STORY. [ARTICLE]

THE HERDER’S STORY.

Strong Arm Pop was all we called him—didn't need no otheiyn&me; Used to herd sheep in Wyomin’—fact it \ alios was his game. How he got the name I’ll tell you. Thought most everybody knew. ' No; It ain’t a dashed long story. Thanks that there's a good weed too. Onc’t Pop herded on a mesa—made camp right dost to the edge. Still he didn’t have no trouble keepin’ them sheep from the ledge. But one day a storm come sudden. First thing that there henfer saw Was three thousand sheep a-drlftin’ fer that cliff, rlghtdoyrn a draw. At the edge the draw was narrer—hardly roou} fer one to pass. Pop he runs ahead, but, Lordy, naught , could stop that chargin’ mass! So be jumps right off the mesa—useter play ball in his day—- . Catches every sheep that tumbles—never muffed but one, they say. That’s hOw Pop is nicknamed Strong Arm. Sheep that drop three hundred feet ’ Ain't no easy things to handle, so Pop’s record ain’t been beat. , What’s that? Castin' doubts upon It? Stranger, that’s a rude surprise. Pop himself told the that story, and a sheep man never lies. —Arthur Chapman in Denver Republican.