he would enjoy putting his boot into the balls of the one with that idiotic bird 's skull on his saddle-horn - standing there and mocking him , he 'd been , thinking all the while that herk avery was too country-dumb to know what he was up to - but the thing he 'd realty enjoy would be beating the cool look from the eyes of the boy in the flathead preacher 's hat , seeing a hotter expression of fear rise up in them as mr. will dearborn of hemphill realized that new canaan was far away and his rich father could n't help him .