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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

THE VARMINT

"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 could be detached and concealed. Inserted between his nether and outer shirts were two gilt "Directions to Travelers" which clung like mustard plasters to his back, while a jagged tin sign, wrenched from the home terminal, embraced his stomach with the painful tenacity of the historic Spartan fox. In his pockets were objects—small objects but precious and dangerous to unscrew and