Having bounced off a ScoCoPa tree and the adjacent forest floor , and after the usual moaning, self-pity, and a decent interval for pain and shock subsidence , a black tarry patch was noticed on the right shin. Coal black, low viscosity, sticky, and foul. Has anyone an idea of the provenance?

Most barnyard and kennel wastes are easily identified. This was like flubber from Hell.

It is imagined that a raccoon partially consumed a dead dog, was overcome by the foulness of its meal, died, decomposed and split open. An opossum, happening upon the reeking coon carcass, dined on its intestines, then tottered away to leave its own deposit in the exact spot where it would engender maximum disgust.