He jumped up yelling, and the first thing the light showed was the
varmint curled up and ready for another spring.
Would you have me suffer myself to be bullied all day by a
varmint?"
If I should go back to him, the cunning
varmint would suspect something, and be dodging through the trees like a frightened deer."
“Away with you, you
varmint!” said Billy Kirby, plucking a bullpout from the meshes, and casting the animal back into the lake with contempt.
See here, you young
varmint, here's a shilling for you.
"I've got the young
varmint at last, have I," pants the farmer; "why, they've been a-skulking about my yard and stealing my fowls--that's where 'tis; and if I doan't have they flogged for it, every one on 'em, my name ain't Thompson."
"Was ever such a sneaking
varmint?" said one of the men; "to come on his business, and he clear out and leave us this yer way!"
I niver cheat anybody as doesn't want to cheat me, Miss,--lors, I'm a honest chap, I am; only I must hev a bit o' sport, an' now I don't go wi' th' ferrets, I'n got no
varmint to come over but them haggling women.
It's that young
varmint a-saying that the young lady kissed me."
He said a horse that wasn't afraid of grizzlies fetched ten times as much as any other horse An' panthers!--all the old folks called 'em painters an' catamounts an'
varmints. Yes, we'll go to Santa Rosa some time.
"They scent plunder; and it would be as hard to drive a hound from his game, as to throw the
varmints from its trail."
In years past, if you didn't have a
varmint rifle with a bull barrel, heavily glassed stock and a twitchy trigger, you did not belong to the club.