"Hang it all," Frank's chums heard him mutter, "I can't seem to get this stuff right. Guess it needs more flour." He put some into the batter he was mixing, and then stirred it. "Now it's too thick," he remarked. "It needs more water." He poured the fluid in with a too lavish hand, it seemed, for he murmured: "Gee whiz! Can't I get this right? Now I've got it too thin. I'll have to empty part of it out."