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Updated: June 12, 2025
"You'll do for this trip. I'm glad you know how to rough it. I onct had a bunch of tenderfeet along young fellers from the East, who had never roughed it before and, believe me, what those chaps didn't know would fill a boomer's wagon twict over.
Orme was the only one who did not ridicule the story. Auberry himself was disgusted at the merriment. "I knowed you wouldn't believe it," he said. "There is no use tellin' a passel of tenderfeet anything they hain't seed for theirselves. But I could tell you a heap more things.
"Well, it's no place for tenderfeet. That's what I'm always telling our neighbor Herrick, over at Casa Grande. Bob ever write you about him?" "Bob never writes me about anything except Emma," said the girl. "But Mr. Adams has been telling me about him. Does he live there all alone?" "No, he's got a Chinese boy to cook for him and a lot of greasers working on the place, but no white men around."
The best hunting-ground for bindle-stiffs is in the sheds, barns, lumber-yards, railroad-yards, etc., on the edges of a city, and the time for hunting is the night, when the bindle-stiff seeks these places to roll up in his blankets and sleep. "Gay-cats" also come to grief at the hands of the road-kid. In more familiar parlance, gay-cats are short-horns, chechaquos, new chums, or tenderfeet.
The boys were congratulated on all sides when they got back to Mr. Kent's house, even the oldest plainsman admitting they had not done so bad for tenderfeet. Aside from long rides, in which they learned to be more proficient on horses, the boys did little for the week following the hunt.
Bad Pete, now on foot, had turned into the camp from the farther side. Espying the boys he swaggered over toward them. "How do you do, sir?" nodded Tom. "Can't you two tenderfeet mind your own business?" snarled Pete, halting and scowling angrily at them. "Now, I come to think of it," admitted Tom, "it was meddlesome on my part to ask after your health. I beg your pardon."
You've no call to get wire-edged about Mr. Norcross. He's not very strong. He's just getting well of a long sickness. I knew a chill would finish him, that's why I gave him my slicker. It didn't hurt me, and maybe it saved his life. I'd do it again if necessary." "Since when did you start a hospital for Eastern tenderfeet?" he sneered; then his tone changed to one of downright command.
It was a lesson, a valuable experience; but I admit that Real Estate speculation threw a glamour over me that still remains. It is the way to wealth for the man who knows how to go about it. About this time two Englishmen arrived in Las Vegas, and we soon got acquainted. One could easily see that they were not tenderfeet. On the contrary, they appeared to be shrewd, practical men of affairs.
As strangers in a western mining settlement they were made roughly welcome, and in response to their inquiries about the country, they were told many tales, some of which were evidently gotten up for the benefit of the "tenderfeet." "Is there a place around here called Phantom Mountain?" asked Tom, at length, as quietly as he could.
The bully looked at him fixedly for a moment, and then drawing back his short upper lip after a way he had, and which made his face resemble that of a snarling wolf, with fangs exposed, he remarked: "It makes me laugh to think of such a lot of tenderfeet in the woods. Be careful not to shoot yourselves, kids. Guns are mighty dangerous sometimes.
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