text:  Scouts wives and children (they always make a point of having large families in order to eat up the spare commons ) all were busy through that eventful day in a novel occupation and by dinnertime not a frog was to be seen; but long long afterwards on a moist evening fugitives from the general prescription might be seen making their silent way across the quadrangle and croakings were heard at night-time which might (as Homer relates of _his_ frogs) have disturbed Minerva only that the goddess of wisdom in chambers collegiate sleeps usually pretty sound