midnight
Sunday
Litmus paper remained either red or blue when stuck into the jelly . This surprised me a little because this whole mass of de-sudsed washing compound mixture had started out with a pretty good shot of lye in it . So my notes grew , but my useful information did n't . By midnight Sunday , it appeared that my jelly invention had only one important talent : The ability to drink endlessly anything containing water . And only the water was used , it seemed . Dissolved solids were cast aside in the form of variously colored dusts . By now , the goop had outgrown the pail and was two-thirds up in the laundry tub .