...Our fine gentleman was off to catch the boat train to the Continong. Well, gentlemen, that’s about all we can do here. It’s a bad business, but straightforward enough. One of these Italian vendetta things, as likely as not.

The mucky message carried the name of a constable at the top.

Chimango caracaras, birds the size of a crow but with the armoury of an eagle, follow the buzzard eagles everywhere, the commotion caused by the larger birds providing these scavengers with ample food in the form of exposed eggs – after all, caracaras have chicks to raise, too.

That's just a bare assertion.