Ah, but knowing who read the book before you violates the laws on the confidentiality of patron records and is a violation of privacy. You'd have to get a warrant to find out, and no, I'm not kidding. Actually, we don't even keep that info very long any more -- a few days and then it's gone. (Even on the old hand-filled-out cards we didn't keep it -- when the sign-out card was full we ripped it up and made a new one.)

And Tracey -- first go kill a squirrel in such a way that it's not all messy. A .22 shot to the spine or poison or old age are the preferred ways; roadkill or a shotgun blast are messy and will make too much trouble. Get some natron (an impure calcium carbonate powder) and you'll need severa pounds of it. Lay the carcase out on a board, belly up. Make a small cut in the stomach just to the left of the midline and draw out the innards (all of them, including the lungs and hears); you may have to reach inside to do a good job). Wash out the body cavity several times. Then draw the brains out either through the nose or via the removal of on the upper vertebra at the back of the head. Wash out the skull cavity, too. Pack these cavities natron and bury the whole mess in natron for a few weeks. (Oh, yeah -- put the innards you removed into canopic jars; don't worry about the brain, which came out in little pieces, because brains aren't important). After a few weeks dig the body, which now should be dried, out of the natron (which will have hardened from the body liquids) and pack the cavities with rolls of linen soaked in cedar oil. Carefully mold the features of the squirrel back into shape, and wrap the whole thing in linen bandages (don't forget the amulets and sacred signs on the bandage as you're rolling). Put it into a sarcophagus under a pyramid for a few thousand years.

That's sort of the gist of it. Herodotus has a good description, except don't don't don't use a soaking of natron dissolved in water; Herry got that part wrong. If you soak the squirrel in a natron solution you'll be very, very sorry.

(Warning: squirrel brains have been found to transmit Crutchfield-Jakobs Disease, so be careful. And above all, don't eat the brains on toast.)