36xxxx 019 The Secret Formula

Jerry Hall and his friends have now been more than 48 hours on the Magic Island, and in these weird and terrifying surroundings, it seems much longer than that. However, they have found Mrs. Gregory's long-lost daughter Joan.

And though they are all prisoners of the mad scientist G-47, and the Gregory yacht is tied fast to one of the peers on the island of Euclidea, there is a spirit of hope on board, as Joan and her mother talk in Mrs. Gregory's cabin, while Jerry and Captain Tex Bradford are busy in another.

who should be in bed, Joan dear, is nearly one o'clock in the morning, and you must be tired after all this excitement. No, Mother, I am not tired, even though Jerry said my eyes look like two fried blanket.

Oh, not exactly that. Jerry said your eyes look like two fried holes in a blanket. But that is even more impossible. It would be possible to fry a blanket, I think, if there were any reason for it.

But to fry a hole, that is out of the question and tire. must learn to take all Jerry says with a green of soap. Take it with a grain of salt. Well now I've done almost as badly as Jerry. You'll learn our strange way of speaking someday my dear.

We have a number of expressions that while probably not correct English make our meaning known and are in common usage. I like everything you and your friends say and do mother. Captain Bradford is a fine man and I like that foolish boy Jerry also.

I would not like to see anything happen to him, but if he does not use more respect in speaking to G47, I dread to think what the result will be. Jerry is young and hot-tempered, but he's really a very intelligent young man.