Word: squirrels
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Rousing Rabble. Yoknapatawpha and its county seat, Jefferson, have their pale counterpart in actuality: Lafayette County and Oxford, where Faulkner lived, worked and occasionally puzzled his mildly curious fellow citizens. "The posted woods on my property contain several tame squirrels," he advised them a few years ago in a sarcastic no-trespassing notice he published in the weekly Oxford Eagle. "Any hunter who feels himself too lacking in woodcraft and marksmanship to approach a dangerous wild squirrel, might feel safe with these." But the real county is the one Faulkner invented, just as the real Troy is Homer...
...separate incidents of squirrel attacks on persons in the Yard yesterday afternoon have forced University Health officials to consider the disturbing possibility of a rabies epidemic among Yard fauna...
...James H. Frantz '63 was bitten by a squirrel that jumped at him from the path in front of Sever Hall. Less than two hours later, Mrs. William D. Sciurus, wife of an instructor in Chemistry, successfully fought off with her umbrella another squirrel that sprang at her from a tree in front of Memorial Church. Frantz has been started on Pasteur treatments in case the animal was rabid...
...only way to determine the presence of rabies among Yard squirrels, Chernoff said, is "to capture as many of them as possible and run serological tests." He warned that "even if as few as one per cent of the squirrels are infected in all likelihood the entire squirrel population in the Yard will have to be exterminated with poisoned bait." State public health officials have already been notified of the danger...
Persons who must enter the Yard should carry a short stick or umbrella with them to ward off lunging squirrels. "Even a rabid squirrel can be routed by a sharp blow on the nose," Chernoff said...