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Updated: June 25, 2025
"Well of all the ridiculous unmitigated greenhorns!" she began. "Well is that all you wanted him for? Why, I supposed you wanted to write to him! Why, I supposed " For the first time an expression not altogether dollish darkened across Rae Malgregor's garishly juvenile blondeness. "Maybe I'm not quite as green as you think I am!" she flared up stormily.
He had been scared, going in; well, who hadn't been, except a few greenhorns brave with the valor of ignorance. But he had gone in, and fought his ship well, and had held his station over the fissionables plant in a hell of bombs and missile, and he had made sure everybody who had gone down and who was still alive was aboard before he lifted out. He was a Space Viking again.
"Sodger guns" were sent to perdition; and as the old trapper was angry about the wound which his mare had received, "crook-eyed greenhorns" came in for a share of his anathemas. The mustang, however, had sustained no serious damage; and after this was ascertained, the emphatic ebullitions of her master's anger subsided into a low growling, and then ceased altogether.
Seeing that Demorest only shrugged his shoulders without replying, he continued, "Et ain't far from here that some folks allow is the headquarters of that cattle-stealing gang. The driver of the coach went ez far ez to say that some of these high and mighty Dons hereabouts knows more of it than they keer to tell." "That's simply a yarn for greenhorns," said Demorest, contemptuously.
"Well," exclaimed the steward, with a grin on his face that was reflected in that of every one standing by, "I've heard of green hands and greenhorns before; but of all the raw johnnies I ever saw on board ship you take the cake!" Strange to say, such was his denseness, that even then, the yokel could not see the point of the joke and the steward had to order him away.
When it was filled they meant to join the troop, and qualify for a better standing than greenhorns or tenderfeet. Larry Henderson had long since gone back to his wilderness home beyond Bear Mountain.
These three cunning fellows made their way to the fair after breakfast, well primed, gorged, and big in the belly, and did as they liked with the greenhorns and others, robbing, filching, playing, and losing, taking down the writings and signs and changing them, putting that of the toyman over the jeweller's, and that of the jeweller's outside the shoe maker's, turning the shops inside out, making the dogs fight, cutting the ropes of tethered horses, throwing cats among the crowd, crying, "Stop thief!"
And the smilin', nice man that run the swindle had been hangin' on the edge of bust for a long while and knowed 'twas comin'. Our five hundred had helped pay his way to a healthier climate, that's all. "'Hold on a minute, says Fatty, lookin' more interested. 'What was the name of the firm that took you greenhorns in?
Indeed, he was so impressed that he decided to back-track the heroes' trail and count for himself just how many wolves the pack had numbered. So he got the would-be lumber-jacks for they were greenhorns from the city to point out for him their incoming trail, which he at once set out to back-track.
It was an old story the unknowing standing vulnerable before the knowing and perhaps harsh. Nelsen guessed at some of the significance of the looks they all received: Another batch of greenhorns to conquer and develop and populate the extra-terrestrial regions. They all come the same way, and look alike. Poor saps...
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