TOAD TALE PART 2
After Toad returned to 'the mess' as they had very appropriately named their shared work and leisure space, he explained the bare boned task which he had been given a week to flesh out.

"So let's see" said Bones, who had a knack for arranging information rapidly, "what we have here is unknowns that must be isolated or quantified. In order to extract some order from the chaos we need to isolate one of them.

I suggest the classic Indian tiger trap, a bleating goat is required so why not plant a suitable subject in the school and await results? I have just the chap in mind, my cousin Osbert, remember the brat that dismantled your engine Flight?"

"I'm afraid he'd let the cat out of the bag because he's a mouthy little bastard who would probably prove unable not to let his school fellows in on the secret." said Toad doubtfully "then the secrets source might be one of several boys to whom he had blabbed and that would make the spy extremely suspicious."

"I don't know why there has to be some shadowy spy when a boy might deliberately sell his own fathers secrets for malice or profit or simply give them away inadvertently by careless talk?" the Flight said. "Any ideas about what subject you will be teaching them, or do they already have a suitable slot."

"No, I already have permission to start a new topic on the school curriculum, it will be model making and flying. After all it's a subject dear to my heart and I won't be a popular teacher struggling to manage Latin declensions."