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The Varmint

[Illustration]

OWEN JOHNSON



  The Varmint

  By OWEN JOHNSON

  Author of "The Prodigious Hickey," "Stover at Yale,"
  "The Humming Bird," "Tennessee Shad," etc.

  WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
  BY F. R. GRUGER

  A. L. BURT COMPANY
  PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

  COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY

  _Published, July, 1910_

  THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.



  TO

  Alexander Lambert, M.D.

  IN FRIENDSHIP, IN GRATITUDE, AND IN MEMORY OF MY WIFE.



THE VARMINT

[Illustration: "LIKE MY JIBS?" SAID STOVER]




THE VARMINT



I


When young Stover disembarked at the Trenton station on the fourth day
after the opening of the spring term he had acquired in his brief
journey so much of the Pennsylvania rolling stock as c