My brother and I therefore popped the corpse into a "relaxing jar" now there's a euphemism right up there with Orwell's Ministry of Peace that dampened it into pliancy, whereupon it could be pinned to the spreading board, a balsa rectangle with a groove down the center that allowed the wings to be flattened without squashing the thorax and abdomen.
NPR: Excerpt: 'At Large and At Small'