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Updated: July 12, 2025
That is what Cuba is to-day. Soulless Yankee corporations have got hold of most of the branches of business that there is any money in, and the things that do not pay and never can be made to pay, are for sale to tenderfeet. The cuban hates the Yankee, the Yankee hates the Cuban, and the Spaniard hates both, and both hate him.
"I guess they know we can take care of ourselves at least we have so far," spoke Nort. "Yes," agreed Bud. "You fellows have done pretty well since you came out here you aren't tenderfeet any longer, not by all the shots that ever broke bottles." "Say, what do you think of that, anyhow?" asked Dick, as he chewed reflectively on a bit of grass. "I don't know what to think," asserted Bud.
Men grown old on the frontier adhere more closely to a rigid code than do tenderfeet who feel for the first time the liberty and license of utter unrestraint, and it was these strangers whom the soldier feared rather than men like Gale and "No Creek" Lee, who would recognize the mercy of his intervention and let the matter drop.
"Seems like it, because the horses are sure coming straight for us," said Frank; "but there are many people moving around in this section, and perhaps some tenderfeet from the East have lost themselves, and would be glad of a chance to sit by our blaze and taste antelope meat, fresh where it is grown. Step back, Bob, and let's wait to see what turns up!" "What had we ought to do?" asked Bob.
If there was any danger he would stay awake himself, instead of trusting two tenderfeet like us." "It may be, but we are in a wild country, where danger is likely to come at any time, and we may have our hands full. It seems to me that it would have been better to let the fire go out, and not attract attention."
Animosities were born which die only when hearts in men's bosoms are forever stilled. Feuds were here originated, which if not settled with firearms were ended in ways as deadly afterwards. Conditions on the Chilkoot were identical. "Tenderfeet" were there as tender, and the way as rough, even if a trifle shorter than that over the White Pass.
Despite the fact that the Indian packers had jumped the freight from eight cents a pound to forty, they were swamped with the work, and it was plain that winter would catch the major portion of the outfits on the wrong side of the divide. Tenderest of the tenderfeet was Kit. Like many hundreds of others he carried a big revolver swung on a cartridge-belt.
"I've just one word to say to you 'fore you start in," he went on. "We kind o' make allowance fer 'tenderfeet' around here once. After that, we deal accordin' savee? Say, ther' ain't no tea-parties customary around this layout." Tresler smiled. If he had been killed for it he must have smiled. In that last remark the worthy Jake had shown his hand.
"What was that?" "Only one of the boys in the seat behind us, snoring." "Sure they're asleep?" "Yes, but what if they're not? They are only kids. They wouldn't understand." "Don't you be too sure about that. I've heard about those kids. Heard about 'em over in Nevada. There's four of them. They call themselves the Pony Rider Boys; and they're no tenderfeet, if all I hear is true.
"The one who found you." At this information Lawrence threw back his head and laughed heartily. "My, but that is a good one," he ejaculated when he had recovered from his merriment. "You tenderfeet make a monkey of Gus and then capture one of his men. I'll let Gus know it was you who found me, if I never speak again. It will make him more angry than anything else could."
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