according to the accompanying story , someone at the royal art museum had found the urn in an old storeroom , and it contained scrolls which , it said here , had the original rules of foot-the-ball laid down in the early years of the century of the summer weevil , a thousand years ago , when the game was played in honour of the goddess pedestriana ... glenda skimmed through the rest of it , because there was a lot of rest to skim .