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Show SHEEP HERDER WELL HOUSED Compact, Comfortable Dwellings Provided Pro-vided for These Who Tend the Herds on Western Plains. Jus. at prt-.-( nt the sheep herder' lor is a fairly happy one, Frank It. Arnold writes in Popular Mechanics magazine. He f ets SI 00 a month he-sides he-sides his expenses, and one never van see his sheep wagon without wantii.g to leave civilization for a few months mid take to the rane. It is the most compact dwelling house on wheels that has ever heen devised. For utilizing all possible space it can give lessons even to a dining car or a sailboat. It is dining car and sleeping car in one, and historically forms a permanent link between western pioneers days, when every one traveled in a prairie schooner, and .nitomobilo days when the sheep wago.i is used only to follow the herd during the winter and spring, until it disappears tip on the high summer sum-mer range, where only a saddle horse can penetrate. The wagon, which for months is thus the home of two sheep herders, has a long, nai'row body, to give freedom free-dom to the wheels, but above the wheels it Hares out enough to give a broad room v. ilh benches along both sides. It has three coverings of canvas can-vas for greater warmth in winter, and a stove screwed to the Moor near the front door. The hack part of the canvas can-vas covered space serves as bedroom, containing nefhing but a bed, to which air is SuppllEd by sliding glass windows win-dows to the rear end of the wagon. Attached to ihe bed is a folding table, and under it are small drawers and a large bin to contain the herder's supply sup-ply of flour and grain. |