The Varmint is a lost[1][2] 1917 American comedy silent film directed by William Desmond Taylor, written by Gardner Hunting and Owen Johnson, and starring Jack Pickford, Louise Huff, Theodore Roberts, Henry Malvern, Ben Suslow and Milton Schumann.
He confides to a silent individual riding on the coach to the school, on the subject of his past career and the reason why he was expelled from his previous school, a man "Dink" takes to be a traveling salesman and later finds out is the Latin professor, known as the "Roman" (Theodore Roberts).
He becomes an easy mark for the schoolboy salesmanship of Doc MacNooder (Maxfield Stanley) and the Tennessee Shad (Robert Gordon) and buys every line of junk those enterprising youths offer him for sale.
He runs away from a licking when he loses the house baseball game, which further committed him to the depths of social ostracism.
He neglects his studies, makes the football team, and has to pass an exam before he can play.