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Tom reined his pony into the group of young people and began spinning yarns, some of which perhaps had but a thin warp of truth. He thought it was his privilege to "string along the tenderfoots" a little. One thing he told the girls and Walter, however, interested them immensely. "You know, I came pretty near roping that black outlaw the day of the tornado. Criminy, if I'd got him!"
'Threw chips of stone ahead and listened, he answered, 'and let me tell you that only the greenest kind of tenderfoot ever takes risks on a precipice. And nine men out of ten were such green tenderfoots that winter of '58-'59, when five thousand prospectors overran the wild canyons and precipices of the Fraser.
Thinking he might know about the nest of the Rock Wren, for an old miner knows a great many things he never thinks of making a book about, I asked him if there were any Wrens around there. "'Wall, I should smile, stranger! Lots on 'em more'n one kind, too but mostly not the reg'lar kind they have where you tenderfoots live bigger, and pickeder in front, and make more fuss.
All of this was conducted with a striking degree of seriousness, and as the exercises made Tenderfoots out of the newest candidates, our own little friends looked on, with united dignity, while they awaited their turn to receive degrees of the second and first class.
"After dinner this boy comes out of the dining-room while the train was waiting, and prances up and down the platform ready to shoot all antelope, lions, or private citizens that might endeavor to molest or come too near him. He was a good-looking kid; only he was like all them tenderfoots he didn't know a law-and-order town when he saw it.
'Shall we take this he-shorthorn along? An' he p'ints where them four tenderfoots is mixed up together in the back of the stage. "'He wouldn't be worth a white chip, says Cherokee, 'an' you-all is too hard hit to go, Texas, yourse'f. So take my regards to Enright an' the boys, an' smooth this all you know for Faro Nell. I makes the trip alone. "'Not much, says Texas.
"I have," replied Grace, raising her finger in salute to the emergency captain. "They'll all be here at Rosabell, by eleven. And having Mary and Helen will give us a small troop." "That's splendid. Mary and Helen are Tenderfoots, of course, but they know the duties. I can scarcely believe that girl would actually say the things we heard her say, and then to throw that box at Louise!"
It's the tenderfoots who stopped us reaping the harvest of the revolution." Since Demetrio believed in the barber's knowledge implicitly, when Luis Cervantes came to treat him on the next day he said: "Look here, do your best, see. I want to recover soon and then you can go home or anywhere else you damn well please." Discreetly, Luis Cervantes made no reply.
"After dinner this boy comes out of the dining-room while the train was waiting, and prances up and down the platform ready to shoot all antelope, lions, or private citizens that might endeavour to molest or come too near him. He was a good-looking kid; only he was like all them tenderfoots he didn't know a law-and-order town when he saw it.
Luis Cervantes cut the ligaments, soaked the wound in water, covered the leg with large clean rags and bound it up. Demetrio was able to sleep all afternoon and all night. On the morrow he woke up happy. "That tenderfoot has the softest hand in the world!" he said. Quickly Venancio cut in: "All right; just as you say. But don't forget that tenderfoots are like moisture, they seep in everywhere.
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