“Here, here! Don’t fret, I found your children wandering around my house,” 
said the Charming Farmer From the Future, while the little blobs he was carrying spewed some noisy "ribbits."
The self-restrained frogs were not happy about him taking their little froggies, but they had already had a frugal dinner, 
so the prospect of taking even a single bite of that human was 
just 
too 
much.