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This bandileer sustained twelve boxes of cartridges, and a well-filled bullet-bag. The armed Salem watcher, besides his firearms and ammunition, had attached to his wrist by a cord a gun-rest, or gun-fork, which he placed upon the ground when he wished to fire his musket, and upon which that constitutional kicker rested when touched off.
Whatever it was, I was in there, an' I heard Dunlavey an' Yuma cookin' this here deal. I wasn't feelin' entirely ongrateful for the way you'd treated me after you'd got my gun that day in the Kicker office an' I wasn't intendin' to let happen what Dunlavey wanted to happen. So I got out of the Fashion as soon as I could an' trailed Yuma.
"You make me afraid," she said. "Thompson is an old croak," interrupted one of the younger men, smiling encouragement. "Don't waste your time on him, talk to me. He is such a grouch that he gives the bugs a regular bed to sleep in. He'd have been well years ago if he hadn't been such a chronic kicker. Cheer up, Mrs. Duke. Of course your husband will get along.
"The way he lives and talks 'No, thank you, I don't care for any thing, says he, when you're standin' at the door of a friendly saloon, which is established by law to bespeak peace and goodwill towards men, and you ask him pleasant to step inside. He don't seem to have a single vice. Haven't we tried him? There was Belle Bingley, all frizzy hair and a kicker; we put her on to him.
From one saloon issued the shrieking, discordant notes of a violin, accompanied by the scuffling of feet; from another came laughter and the clinking of glasses; from still another came harsh oaths and obscene shouts. In the latter place rose the laughter of women. Seated at his desk near the front window of the Kicker office Hollis gravely watched the scene listened to the sounds.
"How the mushrooms have vegetated hereabouts," thought Moran, as he glanced up at the stack of the old work engine, but he was never much of a kicker, so he would not kick now. This wasn't much of a run, but it beat looking for a better one. "Not so much coal, Bennie. Take your clinker hook and level it off. That's it, see the black smoke? Keep your furnace door shut. Now look at your stack again.
Jem Bottles probably would have gone away nursing his wrath and his injury, and planning to waylay the kicker on a convenient night. But neither would have taken a guinea and said no more. Each of these simple-hearted reprobates was too spirited to take a guinea for a kick down a staircase.
I'm not going to use that gun on any stage filled with women, driven by a man seventy years old, but and I mean it if you try to stop me, I'll use it on you. I'm going to show you how anyone can bluff a stage full with a pair of tin shears and a red mask for a kicker. And I'll shoot the man that tries to stop me."
Hollis was convinced that Dunlavey had been inspired by both motives. But though Dunlavey had secured his revenge for the blow that Hollis had struck him in Dry Bottom, Hollis did not purpose to allow him to prevent the appearance of the Kicker.
Now, I suppose you understand what I said, that the value of the plaything consists in the pleasure it can awaken in the mind.” “Yes, mother,” said Rollo. “There is your jumping man,” said she; “is that a good plaything?” “Yes,” said Rollo, “my kicker. But I don’t care much about it. I don’t know where it is now.” “What was it?” said James. “I never saw it.”
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