Groucho Marx said in 1930 movie Animal Crackers.“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know. Then we tried to remove the tusks. . . . But they were embedded so firmly we couldn’t budge them. Of course, in Alabama the tusks-are-loosa, but that is entirely ir-elephant to what I was talking about.”
Yes! When I was a kid (in the 1950’s and 60’s) burning leaves was a fall ritual. Only time I could play with fire and get away with it.