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After possibly acquiring this disease, Sophie nearly reveals her affair to her husband Otto in Paula Fox’s novel Desperate Characters. In another novel, a man with this disease is delayed in firing a gun because it had been set to run through its three empty chambers first. While recalling the death of a man from this disease, his wife “pulls in her horizon like a great fish-net” in (10[1])a novel’s last lines; (10[1])that man contracted this disease (10[1])while his wife held onto a cow’s tail. In that novel, a man with this disease is given a royal burial in Belle Glade. That man acquires this disease amid a (10[1])1928 (10[1])hurricane near the Everglades and is shot by his wife, Janie Crawford. For 10 points, (10[1])what disease contracted by Tea Cake in Their Eyes Were Watching God also affects the title character of Old Yeller? ■END■

ANSWER: rabies [or being rabid; prompt on madness or paranoia; prompt on hydrophobia]
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