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In the meantime, Roche, with the five Americans played their part admirably walking near to the burrow swearing that our horses had been frightened by some varmin and escaped, and started upon the tracks, with as much noise as they could make; to deceive the robbers the more, they left their rifles behind.
Well, you know, ole Martin, the head boundary man, he's about as nice a varmin as Warrigal Alf; an' the young fellers at the barracks they 'on't corroborate with him, no road; an' he thinks his self a cut above the hut, so he lives with Daddy Montague, in Latham's ole place, down at the fur corner o' the horse-paddick.
"I'd like to know what became of Wolf Ear and Hank Stiger," remarked Dan, as he flung himself on the ground, glad enough to get out of his high and uncomfortable Mexican saddle. "They know enough to git out o' sight when thar's a fight on," answered Poke Stover, with a broad laugh. "Them kind o' varmin always does."
"There's a consperacy to turn me out o' the choir, as I shouldn't share the Christmas money that's where it is. But I shall speak to Mr. Crackenthorp; I'll not be put upon by no man." "Nay, nay, Tookey," said Ben Winthrop. "We'll pay you your share to keep out of it that's what we'll do. There's things folks 'ud pay to be rid on, besides varmin."
Frequently, in their rides, they came across skunks, pretty black and white little animals. Frank was about to shoot the first he saw, but Peter, who was with him, shouted to him not to fire. "It's a skunk," he said; "it ain't no use wasting your powder on that varmin.
"The varmin! Time it were done, Master Mark. Oh yes, I'll pick out some lads who owe 'em a grudge, same as I do. You want eight of us? Me and seven more?" "You and Dummy, and six more." "Dummy! Tchah! He's no good." Dummy silently dug his elbow into his master's ribs, but it was unnecessary. "I want you and Dummy, and six men," said Mark decisively.
I had experience of informers in the distillery line once. The worst varmin that is ever encouraged in any house or country. The very mintion of them makes me creep all over still. Catty. Then 'tis Carver, they say, that has the oil of Rhodium for them; for they follow and fawn on him, like rats on the rat catcher of all sorts and sizes, he has 'em.
And, undoubtedly, if honest people never perpetrated worse than banishing such varmin, along with proctors, and drivers of all kinds, out of a civilized country, they would not be so very culpable or atrocious. * Habeas corpus; the above is the popular pronunciation.
The ordinary gray, or "cloudy," wolf of the East they knew, though he was so rare south of Labrador that few of them had ever seen one. They dismissed them all, indifferently, as "varmin." But this unaccountable gray ravager was bigger than any two such wolves, fiercer and more dauntless than any ten.
He resumed his gravity and his theme all in an instant. "White arsenic she won't look at for I've tried her; but they tell me there's another sweetmeat come up, which they call it striek nine" "Hets! let the poor beasty alone. Life's as sweet tit as tus." "If you was a gardener, you'd feel for the bulbs, not for the varmin," remonstrated Maxley rather arrogantly.
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