Question: How much money does a sheepherder make?
Answer: Just enough to buy oil for my oil burning lantern and a sack of flour for making biscuits.
Question: Why sheep?
Answer: Why not?
Question: How do you stand the loneliness?
Answer: I serenade the sheep with my squeeze box, which attracts coyotes that howl along. I'm never lonely in the wild.
Question: Which is smarter - a cow or a sheep?
Question: How did you become a sheepherder?
Answer: Needed a job.
Question: Would you recommend this profession to young adults looking for a job?
Answer: Nope. No cell phone reception out here.
Question: How far away are you from the nearest town?
Answer: About 4,500 miles.
Question: What happens if you get sick?
Answer: Not much.
Question: What happens if wolves tries to eat your sheep?
Answer: Their tails, or what is left of their tails, end up on a cord hanging outside my sheepherder wagon.
Question: Do you have a wife?
Question: Where does she live?
Answer: In the nearest town.
Question: What words of wisdom do you have for the readers?
Answer: Try a campfire, the stars, and a little night music.