Part 7 (1/2)

Cub deo, rip you; it'll wear your nerves out, and then you won't have any lead-in to connect your antennae with your brains”

”Ha, ha, ha,” laughed thethe illustration

”When did you begin to study radio, Mr Perry?” asked Bud

”Oh, I've been learning rapidly ever since I was thrown into the coet you off the question”

”The question--as the question?” asked Cub, digging his fingers into his rather lengthy locks of hair

”Mystery, wasn't it?” reminded Mr Perry

”Yes, that's it,” Bud replied ”The mystery of the Radio Robinson Crusoe in the Lake of the Thousand Isles”

”That sounds interesting, but it's mostly a poetic, or ecstatic, juht there is the secret of e Reins to look sie in this affair?” Cub challenged

”From what I've heard, the whole affair seee Now, I tell you e'll do We'll go to bed early and have a good sleep In the , we'll shake this affair up in a sieve and see if we can't get rid of everything but the main lumps of the facts Then we'll size them up and see e can et at the bottoard as a profound oat,” said Cub

”It's up to you, Bob,” was his father's reply ”I've no desire to keep hi Cub's ”Goat”

In theafter breakfast Mr Perry called a conference on deck for the purpose of discussing ”the oat”, as Hal put it

”Yes,” said Bud, his sense of humor stimulated by this allusion; ”all Mr

Perry has to do to return Cub's goat is to prove there isn't anyto do that,” objected the adult oat or disprove thefacetious,” broke in Cub

”Not necessarily,” objected Mr Perry ”I didn't pros The fact of the matter is, a mystery represents the state or condition of mind of the person mystified Now, I am not mystified over this affair at all; hence there is no mystery in it, so far as I aed

”Oh, no; I didn't mean I could do that”

”Then you ued

”Suppose you have a difficult exa time you have to confess you can't do it--does that mean it's a mystery and you are mystified?”

This was a poser for the boys They had never looked at a subject of this kind on any such light