The crudest of cabins sufficed them for shelter, beds of beech leaves were all the couches they required; they had more guns in their huts than agricultural or mechanical implements; they scarcely pretended to raise anything more than a scanty patch of corn; and when they could not put on their tables the flesh of the almost wild razor-back hog which roamed the woods, they made meat of woodchucks, raccoons, opossums or any other "varmint" their guns could bring down.
"The Struggle for Missouri"
John McElroy
Here, give me the varmint, and you hang on to Chris, my boy, or we'll have to cart you home.
"Spinning-Wheel Stories"
Louisa May Alcott
"No wolves around," said Vosh; "but it'll be safe from any kind of varmint."
"Winter Fun"
William O. Stoddard