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.