He knew the man took him for a greenhorn, but then the man himself was a Jerseyman.

It is no shame to be a greenhorn to a Jerseyman.

"O Dick, if we only had the countersign I could play a brilliant trick on these greenhorns!

" King of Corpus (who was an incorrigible wag) was about to point out a half dozen of people in the room, as the most celebrated wits of that day; but I cut King's shins under the table, and got the fellow to hold his tongue, while Jones wrote on his card to Hoskins, hinted to him that a boy was in the room, and a gentleman who was quite a greenhorn: hence that the songs had better be carefully selected.

The lumber-camp cook grinned a little as he took in the new and striking hunting apparel which Bluff Masters sported so airily; doubtless he immediately concluded that the whole party must be a set of greenhorns, incapable of knowing enough to come in out of the wet when it rained.

With the greenhorn the automobile is long-suffering.

Say, but you greenhorns make me smile.

Every Spaniard that spoke to him, whether clerkling or underling, was presented as a leading merchant, a marquis, or a count, while on the other hand any one who passed him by was a greenhorn, a petty official, a nobody!

Generally there are one or two of those rascals on this train, but they know me; I don't get a chance at them any more, so I sometimes amuse myself by astonishing greenhorns.

A man must be still a greenhorn in the ways of the world, if he imagines that he can make himself popular in society by exhibiting intelligence and discernment.

They'll go for that air camp to the southward, expectin' to find some greenhorns; and I only hope they may find 'em.

Yep, a greenhorn.

"'Oh,' says the greenhorn, nodding as if he was thinkin' this over and discovering a little truth in it.

" [Illustration: A Hopeless Case] THE GREENHORN A lettuce walking out one day, Lost his head, so lost his way; A Pumpkin happened on the scene, And said it came from being green.

[Illustration: The Greenhorn] OLD MR.

He was not to be taken in by your thick-jointed, heavy-headed cattle, without any go to them, that suit a country-parson, nor yet by the "galinted-up," long-legged animals, with all their constitutions bred out of them, such as rich greenhorns buy and cover up with their plated trappings.

Old rowers looked the freshmen over with astonishment, for they gave the appearance of well-drilled amateurs, and not greenhorns.

"Of course you must understand that I was a greenhorn at diving.

A rabbit's foot charm, a small reproduction of the Barye lion, or the well-known Perry picture of a lion, a Dresden-china lamb or shepherdess, and a pussy-cat plate, pincushion, or paper weight are suggestions for first prizes, and four little tin horns painted green may be given as booby prizes to the four "greenhorns" who have the worst showing.

"It isfor greenhorns.

Was she not scorning me even now? I had heard women talk of greenhorns and backwoods boys in those days when I had lived a life in which women played an important, a disturbing, and a baleful part for every one but the boy who lived his strange life on the tow-path or in the rude cabin; and now these outcast women came back to me and through the very memories of them poisoned and corrupted my nature.

She will have taken us for a pair of absolute greenhorns.

The night after he came they put him on guard dutya greenhorn, with no knowledge of any orders but gee and haw.

"These greenhorns are not nice to play with," he said.

You aren't all of you miners, so I will explain further that to drill into rock with a double-jack and steel drill is not sport for greenhorns exactly.