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"I am only a tenderfoot," she had wisely begun, "and always have had an unhappy faculty of doing the wrong thing unintentionally. You are a big, strong, generous man, and you will hold no malice against a foolish girl !"
Five minutes after they had resumed their journey Parsons cried, as he raised himself in the stirrups, shading his eyes with his hands as he peered ahead, "What's that 'ere bit of blue out there? Part of somebody's outfit? or was there a shipwreck close at hand?" "It's a man most likely a tenderfoot, if he tried to walk across this 'ere desert." The two halted, and Dick Stevens's life was saved.
Judge distance, size, numbers and height within 25 per cent. error. Bring a tenderfoot trained by himself in the points required of a tenderfoot. A scout's honour is to be trusted. If a scout were to break his honour by telling a lie, or by not carrying out an order exactly, when trusted on his honour to do so, he may be directed to hand over his scouts' badge and never to wear it again.
If they're not tenderfoot, howling tenderfoot !" "Just the same, honey, he's shot a yearling," said Knowles, frowning at the culprit. "Suppose you let me do the questioning." "Ah pardon me," remarked the hunter, rebounding from apprehension to easy assurance at sight of the girl's smile. "I would prefer to be third-degreed by the young lady. Permit me to salute the Queen of the Outlaws!"
"A puncher put him wise to what was in the wind, and he sold out cheap to a tenderfoot and pulled his freight. They never did locate him." Then, with a pointed rock which he picked up beside him, he drew a rude diagram or two in the dirt. "That's how he done it," he explained. "Pretty smooth, too." So the talk went on, as such things will, idly, without purpose save to pass the time.
"Josh," he said, "it's very plain to me that you will make a pretty clever scout, because you've got the habit of observing things down to a fine point. And if you've read as much as you say, of course you know that one of the first things a tenderfoot has to do is to remember to keep his eyes about him, and see things."
Under further orders, they dragged the trunk down into the bar-room. It was broken open and found to contain nothing but clothes of the plainsman's cut, material, and state of wear; a neatly folded Mexican saddle showing use, and a raw-hide quirt. "Hell of a tenderfoot!" said Black Hank, contemptuously. The outlaws had already scattered outside to look for the trail.
He looped the reins over his arm and placed his hands in his coat pockets. As he leaned against the tree-trunk nibbling nonchalantly at a sprig of grass, a tenderfoot would never have dreamed that his fingers were tensely held against the triggers of the revolvers hidden in his pockets. Soon after Mr.
I said in a whisper. "Let him have it now!" Sam gave a melancholy sigh. "You don't understand; but he does," he said. "He knows. Mr. Tenderfoot, there's a rule out here among white men in the Nation that you can't shoot a man when he's with a woman. I never knew it to be broke yet. You can't do it. You've got to get him in a gang of men or by himself. That's why. He knows it, too. We all know.
I had now little fear of being called a tenderfoot and when I viewed my reflection in the spring I felt quite proud of my appearance. “Come along now old scout,” said Pete viewing me with the pride of an artist, “come along and let me test you on a real trail. I want to see what my teaching has done for you.” Pete led me through the underbrush to a point among the rocks.
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