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Updated: June 26, 2025
"Unless you can tell me you didn't do it." He swung round on his heel and looked at me as savage as a devil out of hell. "I did it, Britten Barney, my mate, had nothing to do with it. Didn't you see him sweat the night you picked us up? Barney's a tender-foot at this game; he'll never cut a figure in the 'Calendar, why, not if he lives to be a chimpanzee in the human menagerie.
"Dry up, Mike!" returned Frank with a grin. "What does a Navaho know about horses! Enoch, this is a sure enough Indian. Mike, let me introduce Mr. Enoch Huntingdon of New York City." The Navaho nodded and smiled. "You look as if a little Canyon climbing would do you good," said he. "I was looking at Tom horse, Frank. He's in bad shape. How much did that tender-foot weigh that rode him?"
Layer after layer, up it came; an' all the while mebbe I wasn't feelin' like a tender-foot, with that fat little cuss puffin' his pipe in the back seat, as happy as a toad. After a bit he looks at me purty sympathetic like, an' sez, "You seem to have a weak stomach." "Weak?" I yells. "Weak! why you doggone son of a pirate, it kicks like a shotgun every time it goes off. Weak!"
'I don't like trusting my china to the hands of a tender-foot. 'Quite right, though your china would prove an excellent means of defence at long range. It was delf, a quarter of an inch thick. So I smoked while he washed up, swept, dusted, and arranged the room. After the room was ordered to his taste, we proceeded to hold council. He could offer dinner, magic lantern, music.
When I did this all these young Indians, both boys and girls, laughingly took hold of the lariats and started to pull our coach into camp. This occasioned much mirth. This was a great sight for the tender-foot. My passengers declared it excelled any fiction they had ever read.
This boosting of climate for invalids, I found, was mainly the work of land sharks, railroads, hotel and sanitarium people, and a few medical men who were crafty or misguided. This climate may be ideal in being germ-free, but where it is so hot and dry that even germs can't eke out an existence, it is also a trifle trying on the tender-foot consumptive.
I have known a "tender-foot" to disappear over the bluffs on such a chase in the middle of the afternoon and return at night crestfallen, to acknowledge himself vanquished by a most insignificant little calf.
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