You won't believe me, but I bought that mine for five hundred dollars, cash, and they thought I was the biggest fool and tenderfoot that ever came out here.
The staple topic of conversation at Arco was one very common in the far west, when a tenderfoot is of the company.
Any old time a mule needs a tenderfoot to teach him where to put his feet," he said, "I want to have a front seat to watch it.
If the blanket feels tickly, it would not be a great crime, no matter what the tenderfoot says who wanted you to sleep on the ground, to take along a sheet.
He then takes the scouts' oath and is enrolled as a tenderfoot and is entitled to wear the buttonhole badge.
Bring a tenderfoot trained by himself in the points required of a tenderfoot.
These comments are coldly judicial and exactly after the mind of the unsympathetic tenderfoot or the "hard case" of early days.
The pictures of winter scenes in eastern magazines and books looked strange and unfamiliar to us, but as one saucy girl said to a tenderfoot from a blizzard-swept state, "We see more and deeper snow everyday than you ever saw in your life.
Familiarity with the coquettish canoe made us perfectly at home with it, and in later years when the tenderfoot arrived, we were convulsed with inextinguishable laughter at what seemed to us an unreasoning terror of a harmless craft.
It quite naturally follows that some absurd things have been written, some heartless, others pathetic and of real literary value, although it has been difficult for the tenderfoot to avoid errors.
Even at this very minute, one young tenderfoot is shouting in my ear that he's crazy to see that fellow I bunked into in France.
It crossed a little brook where Tom and Roy had fished many times, and groped for pollywogs and crawfish when Tom was a tenderfoot at Temple Camp.
Not so much as an uproarious, aggressive tenderfootwas at his heels.
Tenderfoot though he was, Dan would go back to those forests, to spend his last six months of life among the wild creatures that made them their home.
And because it is the voice of the wilderness itself, the tenderfoot that camps in the evergreen forest will listen, and his talk will die at his lips, and he will have the beginnings of knowledge.
And this was another bit of wisdom that in a tenderfoot would have caused much wonder in certain hairy old hunters in the West.
Of course it would have been only child's play to an experienced hunter; but to a tenderfoot it was the difficult mark indeed.
It's the sign of the tenderfoot not to think there's any danger--and I'm not going to think that way any more.
That's Failing--the tenderfoot that's been staying at Lennox's.
The girl was shrewd enough to see that the more she sought to soften the wind to her Eastern tenderfoot the more surely he was to be shorn, so she gave over her effort in that direction, and turned to the old folks.
It's a long ride down the hill, and going down is harder on the tenderfootthan going up.
It was heartening to see the flames leap up, flinging wide their gorgeous banners of heat and light, and in their glow the tenderfoot ranger rapidly recovered his courage, though his teeth still chattered and the forest was dark.
All right, Miss Berrie, but perhaps your tenderfoot needs a doctor.
Before proceeding with the tenderfoot requirements, a scout should first learn the two primary knots: the overhand and figure-of-eight knots.
That of the tenderfoot is of gilt and seven-eighths of an inch wide, and it is made for the button hole or with a safety pin clasp.
If the tenderfoot will follow closely the various steps indicated in the diagrams, he will have little difficulty in reproducing them at pleasure.
For the present your interest lies in the tenderfoot or lowest grade, which is the first step and in which grade you must serve at least a month before you can advance to the next.
After these preliminary steps, the prospective tenderfoot may proceed to learn the required knots.
He agreed to this the more readily since it was understood that Mike Murphy was to be initiated as a Tenderfoot Scout,--that is provided he could pass the necessary examination.
There's one funny thing about him and that is that he can pass most any merit badge test, but he can't seem to get out of the tenderfoot class.
They take Tom Slade through a series of typical boy adventures through his tenderfoot days as a scout, through his gallant days as an American doughboy in France, back to his old patrol and the old camp ground at Black Lake, and so on.
I sent for one after Mrs. Enterprise Twiggly told me that it was hard for a tenderfoot to tell a stick from a snake just at first.
She drew herself up very straight as she enumerated: "Well, there's plenty that usually scares tenderfoot school-teachers.
What are we going to do with thetenderfoot we caught last night?
By God, thistenderfoot certainly talks his head off," Quail said.
That tenderfoot has the softest hand in the world!
Well, I'll soon find out if this tenderfoot came here to murder me.
Your affectionate friend, Luis Cervantes Venancio finished reading the letter for the hundredth time and, sighing, repeated: "Tenderfoot certainly knows how to pull the strings all right!
I have to learn all that new class lesson, and I hope to get out of the Tenderfoot tribe before next week.
Four years had made a marked difference in the appearance of Tom Webb, formerly Tenderfoot of the Sea Scouts' yacht Petrel.
Smithy is only a poor tenderfoot at best, and not a seasoned veteran.
It's so plain even a tenderfoot couldn't miss seeing the same.
They went ahead with that unerring instinct of the plainsman whose sense of direction seems positively uncanny to a tenderfoot, especially if the tenderfoot has ever been lost.
Scenting a tenderfoot half a dozen of the inmates strolled outside.
His description of a beardless tenderfoot coming all the way from Michigan to teach veteran miners what they ought to do, or ought not to do was certainly amusing, if not overdrawn by its exaggeration.
I want to tell you that no tenderfoot will get far in Canyon Pass if he begins as you have.
Evidently she had not been in the crowd the day before that had welcomed the coming of the tenderfoot preacher and his sister to Canyon Pass.
You don't expect any tenderfoot parson can come in here and make over Canyon Pass?
You don't look the tenderfoot kid that went into the canyon!
I ain't fixed for this here tenderfoot game you-all have sprung on me.
I'm goin' back to the tenderfoot and see him through if I swing pole-high for it.
Now a tenderfoot totin' a gun is dangerouser than any rattler that ever hugged hisself to sleep in the sun--and most fellas travelin' the desert knows it.
If you was a tenderfoot from the West, you would 'a' had to take your own medicine.
I'll never call you a tenderfoot as long as I live.
It rankled to be called tenderfoot by a slender chit of a woman.
The tent rocked drunkenly, and in the frosty vapour he found himself face to face with a startled young woman who was sitting up in her blankets--the very one who had called him a tenderfoot at Dyea.
A tenderfoot cursed his luck And feebly cried out "yah!
A tenderfoot to lead you Who never knows the way, You are playing in the best of luck If you eat more than once a day.
A tenderfoot had brought it, he was wheeling all the way From the sun-rise end of freedom out to San Francisco Bay.
No wonder I've been losing every bet I made tonight When a sucker and a tenderfoot was between me and the light.
