Skill is the product of hours of practice.  His reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue.

Triggs, in Garden Craft in Europe, says that the clairvoyée was, despite its French name, a purely Dutch invention. Placed at the end of an alley, it consists of two or more brick piers with an ornamental iron grille between, to extend the garden view to the country beyond, perhaps to some church steeple or other feature of the landscape.

Where several cylinders have been joined together, and squeezed into a cake or ball, the mass is usually wrapped in large leaves, which appear to belong to a malvaceous or bombaceous plant.

Look you what hacks are on his helmet !