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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.
"Now, I'll settle with you and your bunch of meddling tenderfeet," announced Cravath sternly. "Right about face!" They hesitated, then turned in obedience to his command. There seemed nothing else for them to do, for both men were fingering their weapons suggestively. "These boys have done nothing to harm you, Cravath," protested Mr. Phipps.
There was no way of anticipating people's reactions. Nearly all climbers dread the altitude of the high country. It is the "Old Man of the Sea" to most "tenderfeet." It has as many forms as the clouds and changes them as readily.
Their own tent is gone, their canoe is smashed you said so yourself and they're on the opposite side from Temple Camp. You know our signboard over there, 'Welcome to friend or stranger!" "Come on in and get them," I said, "I don't care. I don't care about anything. Why did he ever try to paddle across in all that rain? That was the beginning of all the trouble. A couple of bungling tenderfeet "
Of course, the term has misapplications; as an extreme case, I've even heard ign'rant tenderfeet who alloodes to the whole West as 'ornery. But them folks is too debased an' too darkened to demand comments." "You are very loyal to the West," I remarked. "Which I shorely oughter be," retorted the old gentleman. "The West has been some loyal to me.
"What the hell are you-all doin' on the trail without no money at all?" he growls, "and how do you expect to get along? Such plumb tenderfeet drive me weary." "Well," says the man, still reasonable, "I ain't got no money, but I'll give you six bits' worth of flour or trade or an'thin' I got." "I don't run no truck-store," snaps Texas Pete, and turns square on his heel and goes back to his chair.
Evidently he found the alpine summer short and felt it necessary to step lively. Altitude, that convenient scapegoat of tenderfeet, did not seem to affect his wind or his endurance. He stacked his harvest in one corner of the field from which he cut it. He cut flowers along with the grass. Perhaps he used them for flavor as grandmother put rose-geranium leaves in her crab-apple jelly.
One is that in the army, as well as out of it, 'tenderfeet' are left to learn by experience; the other is that our surgeon resents being cautioned or advised. Now, boys, after dinner you had better take a siesta. By doing so you will find it less difficult to make an early start to-morrow morning." "Thank you," replied Frank.
At Mangaldan a cavalry outfit replaced our mounted infantrymen, and while the members of our new escort were resting under the shade of a tree in the cemetery, I heard them voicing joyful anticipations of the easy time they were to have travelling with tenderfeet. I made up ray mind to give them some healthful exercise on the trip.
"What's bag-baiting 'possum?" asked Walter. "What! You never heard of bag-baiting?" demanded Cad. "I never did." "Well, you fellows are tenderfeet!" "May we go along and help?" asked Chunky. "What do you say, fellows?" "We might let them on a pinch. I suppose they've got to learn some time." "All right, you fellows may go out and help us, but it's a job, mind you!
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