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I allow it looks ridiculous, but my notion is some fires start themselves; you'll find them burning in belts of woods the Indians and prospectors leave alone. Some are probably started by cooking fires. The man who knows the bush is careful; the tenderfoot is not." "Then you don't think somebody may have had an object for lighting this fire?" "On the whole, I reckon not.
"Dunlavey," he said quietly, "what is the actual value of the Circle Bar ranch?" Dunlavey smiled blandly. "You couldn't find any man around these parts to take it at any price," he returned. "Why?" questioned Hollis. Dunlavey grinned mysteriously. "I reckon you know why," he returned; "you're pretty much of a tenderfoot, but I reckon Judge Graney has put you wise to the situation.
At dawn the next morning he began his climb up the bristling walls of the canyon. Eleven days before he would have said that to scale these sickening heights was impossible. But Jim would never be a tenderfoot again. He had been on short rations for three days and was weak from overwork.
"The court rules," resumed Dan Anderson, "that this game can't wait for arguments of counsel. Curly, you are a disgrace. You and McKinney ought to skin Doc and the Learned Counsel easy if you had a bit of savvy. Can't you hit that stake?" "I could if you'd let me take a six-shooter or a rope," said Curly. "I ain't fixed for this here tenderfoot game you-all have sprung on me.
At this bit of information Payson became anxious about the plans for his wedding. The ceremony was uppermost in his mind at the time. "Well, he can get one after the wedding." Then he asked: "Is the minister here yet?" Polly laughingly replied: "You're feelin' pretty spry now, but you'll be as meek as a baby calf in a little while. In this section a bridegroom is treated worse than a tenderfoot."
Twice he neighed, impatiently and long; and as he quickened his gait still more, the packhorse did the same, and I realized that there was about me still a spice of the tenderfoot: those dots were not cattle; they were horses. My horse had put me in the wrong. He had known his kind from afar, and was hastening to them. The plainsman's eye was not yet mine; and I smiled a little as I rode.
"You is shore a tenderfoot! Don' you-all know that blastin' scares all th' deer away from a minin' camp?" Bennington looked confused. "No, I hadn't thought of that," he confessed stoutly enough. "I kind of like to shoot!" said she, a little wistfully. "What sort of a gun is it?" "A Savage smokeless," answered Bennington perfunctorily.
Now, you tell me what you know about this man, because I don't calculate to let you eat, drink, or sleep until you do tell." "You must think I'm a tenderfoot! Inez, you open that door into the yard." "Peter, you engage Inez' attention, will you?" asked Douglas in his gentle voice. "Now then, Scott, where is Fowler?" Peter moved his chair over beside Inez. Scott made a wry face.
"'You jest thinks you don't like beans, says Dave, an' with that he sorter dictates at the tenderfoot with his gun, an' the tenderfoot thar-upon lays for his frijoles like he's actooally honin' tharfor. "'Which it all shows Dave's got a good heart, says Missis Rucker to Tucson Jennie.
He had less to say than formerly, did not mention Barber, did not ask after Cis, and jiggled one foot constantly, as if he were on the point of again jumping up and taking flight. Father Pat gone, he brightened considerably as he discussed the departed guest. "Soldier, eh!" he exclaimed. "Wal, young feller, I'll say this preachin' gent ain't no ev'ryday, tenderfoot parson! No, ma'am!
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