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Shortly after noon Ben Allen had dropped into the Kicker office with the news that every owner in the county with the exception of Dunlavey had responded to the law's demands. To Hollis's inquiry regarding the course he would pursue in forcing Dunlavey to comply with the law, Allen remarked with a smile that there was "plenty of time." He had had much experience with men of the Dunlavey type.
After we had finished breakfast and were smoking our cigars he began to kick. I told him if he was that kind of a man I would never play with him any more. I left him and went to bed. I got up in the afternoon and went out on the street, when I saw my poker friend in company with Detective Steve Mead. Then I knew he was a kicker, sure enough.
The Kicker named a man who would not be bribed or cowed and declared that his name would appear on the ballot at the next election to be held on the first Monday in November. At the end of the article he printed the man's name Ben Allen!
"Here, lad," he said, when the boy reached the poop, "lend me a hand with this kicker." Jeremy laid hold with a will, and found that it took almost all his strength, along with that of the powerful Captain, to hold the schooner on her course.
“It was a pasteboard man,” said his mother; “and there was a string behind, fixed so that, by pulling it, you could make his arms and legs fly about.” “Yes,” said Rollo, “I called him my kicker.” “You liked it very much, when you first had it.” “Yes,” said Rollo, “but I don’t think it is very pretty now.” “That shows what I said was true.
The change had been gradual, beginning with the day when he had told the author of the notice that had appeared on the door of the Kicker office not to hold the express on his account. But the change had come and it was evident that it was to be permanent. It had only been necessary to arouse the government to the situation in order to secure intervention.
When the Kicker appeared following the incident in the sheriff's office, there was a detailed account of Dunlavey's now famous "ten day edict," together with some uncomplimentary comments upon the latter's action. This was signed by Hollis. He called attention to Dunlavey's selfishness, to the preparations that had been made by him to shoot down all the foreign cattle on the Rabbit-Ear.
"Fortunately not," laughed the judge. He placed a finger on a column in the Kicker. "This article about the Cattlemen's Association is a hummer if I may be allowed the phrase. A straight, manly citation of the facts. It ought to win friends for you."
Look out of the way there, you fool! Use Casey's Corn Cure! Extry! Extry! Evening Slop-Bucket and Swill-Barrel, six o'clock edition! And it was at seventy-two and the market Cab! Cab! Try Jones's Little Five-cent Cigars! Brown's Elite Tonsorial and Shaving Parlors! Have you seen Lucy Legs in the High Kicker? The Daily Hullabaloo says Shine, boss?
"But they're not looking for it," objected the kicker, "or they wouldn't go in so swift and hard. Real nerve? I'd believe in that more if I ever heard of one of these nimble-jack racers taking a big chance with his life off the field, and where there was no crowd of wild galoots to look on and cheer!" "Of course killing and maiming are not the real objects of the game," pursued the first speaker.
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