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Updated: June 12, 2025
All of the scouts knew what it was easily enough, though there had been a time when they were real tenderfeet, and could hardly distinguish between the call of an owl and the braying of a donkey; but camping-out experience had done away with all such ignorance as that. "There, don't that make you feel foolish, Step Hen?" demanded Bumpus. "Me? Whatever put that silly notion into your head, Bumpus?"
"It wouldn't be any trouble to equip ourselves like tenderfeet," he explained to Colonel Howell, "and to make a featherbed trip of this. But we're going to travel like trappers." The hunt was to be for caribou back over the hills in the direction of the Barren Lands.
In truth, the "boys" had invented the whole story, just for the sake of impressing the young "tenderfeet" Monty, Herbert and Leslie; and it had satisfied the jokers that these youngsters "swallered it hull." But Leslie had a gift for dramatic recital and listening to him the affair seemed very real to the girl.
There appeared to be no limit to the size of this deposit, and now the old-line operators who had shunned the town-site boom bid feverishly against the promoters and the tenderfeet for acreage. Farms and ranches previously all but worthless were cut up into small tracts and drilling sites, and these were sold for unheard-of prices.
I wish I had a real doctor, but I don't expect any. It is a long hard climb up here for one of those tenderfeet." He returned to his charge, and Swenson walked slowly away, back to the camp, oppressed with the sense of his utter helplessness.
Bad Pete's look of interest in them faded. "Huh!" he remarked. "Then you're no good either why." "That's true, I'm afraid," sighed Tom. "However, can you tell us the way to the camp?" From one pocket Bad Pete produced a cigarette paper and from another tobacco. Slowly he rolled and lighted a cigarette, in the meantime seeming hardly aware of the existence of the tenderfeet.
They were not rough-looking at all, and their clothes looked clean and rather new, but gave one the impression that they had been made for other people. Their pale faces told that they were "tenderfeet," and one could see there was a sad lacking of brains all around.
Today was a birthday for Mr. The next day it still snowed a little at intervals between clouds and sunshine, and all "tenderfeet" were more comfortable indoors. Miss E. and Ricka had gone the day before with the boys and Mr.
Had any one been watching closely they probably would have seen a head bob up occasionally, the owner take a cautious look around, and then drop back again as though convinced that all was well, with no danger of ferocious wild beasts raiding the camp. These were the tenderfeet of the troop.
A bunch of simon-pure tenderfeet strayed into the mountains west of here a couple of summers ago. There were two women in the bunch. The youngest one, who was about your age and size, must have had more than her share of vanity. I guess she figured on charming the bear and the moose, or the simple aborigines who dwell in this neck of the woods.
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