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and out of that he's keepin' his widowed mother and seven of her
children. One day he finds a newspaper and all over the front page is
a article tellin' about all the money the welterweight champion is
makin', so the Kid figures the pickle game is no place for a young
feller with his talent, and decides to become welterweight champ.
First he tries himself out by slammin' the guy he's workin' for, after
catchin' him insultin' the stenographer by askin' her to take a ride in
his runabout, when the buyer is already takin' her out in his
limousine. When the boss comes back to life, he fires the Kid and our
hero goes out and knocks down a few odd brutes here and there for
gettin' fresh with innocent chorus girls and the like. Finally, he
practically wrecks a swell gamblin' joint where he has gone to rescue
his girl, which had been lured there by the handsome stranger from the
city.

"Well!" says Potts, when Van Aylstyne gets finished. "How does that
strike you?"

"What I like," pipes Miss Vincent, with a funny little quirk of her lip
and a wink at De Vronde. "What I like is its daring originality!"

Van Aylstyne stiffens up.

"Of course," he says, kinda sore, "if I'm to be criticised by--"

"Ain't they no villains or nothin' like that in it?" butts in the Kid,
frownin' at him.

"Joosta one minoote!" says Genaro. "Don't get excite! That's joosta
firsta reel!"

He waves his hand at Van Aylstyne, and this guy gives a couple of
glares all around and then turns over another page. It seems at this
stage of the game, a lot of gunmen get together to stop the Kid from
winnin' the title, so they throw him off a cliff. He gets up, dusts
off his clothes, registers anger and flattens half a dozen of 'em. A
little bit later he gets fastened to a railroad track and the fast mail
runs over him. This makes him peeved, and he gets up and wallops a
couple of tramps that's passing for luck. Then the villain's gang of
rough and readys grabs him again and he is throwed off a ship into the
ocean. A guy comes along in a motor boat, and, after shootin' a few
times at the Kid without actually killin' him, registers surprise and
runs over him. When the Kid comes up there ain't nothin' to wallop, so
he swims six miles to the island. The minute he crawls on the beach he
faces the camera and registers exhaustion. Then a lot of guys jump out
and stab him. He knocks 'em all cold and then he goes on, fights the
champ and wins t