Reading this story in World Magazine (June 14/21) reminded me of Abraham Piper’s tireless bout with his buck-toothed antagonists:

“Curators at a popular open-air museum in Helsinki, Finland, have asked patrons to stop feeding the squirrels. The rodents, they say, are now eating away at the display houses, barns, and cottages that make up the outdoor museum of traditional Finnish culture. ‘Squirrels run into the buildings through open doors, they nibble on the museum textiles and make holes in the walls,’ museum conservator Risto Holopainen told the AFP news service. Holopainen said the squirrels come for food handed out by people visiting the 87-building museum, but stay for gnawing on roofing tiles and other parts of the structures.” (pg. 17)

Minneapolis…Helsinki…what’s next? If someone suggested the bushy bandits were bent on worldwide domination, I wouldn’t bat an eye.