Word: pyre
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When final scores are told off at the end of the hunting period the corpses of birds and the tails of rats and mice are heaped into a pyre, gasoline is thrown over the whole and the hunters dance a war dance about their kill as flames cremate the varmint carcasses. One enthusiastic rat hunter tells of a perfect day during which his party made away with 160 rats...