your crumbles: then add two grumbles of
tumbles and stir rapidly._

Davy read this over two or three times, in the greatest perplexity, and
then gave it up in despair.

"It's nothing at all except a jumbly way of cooking something tumbly,"
he said to himself, and then turned sadly to the third page. Alas! this
was a great deal worse, being headed:--

THE BEST SNUB FOR FEASTIE SPRALLS;

and poor Davy began to feel as if he were taking leave of his senses. He
was just about to throw the book down in disgust, when it was suddenly
snatched out of his hands; and, turning hastily, he saw a savage glaring
at him from the bushes.

Now Davy knew perfectly well, as all little boys should know, that when
you meet a savage in the woods you must get behind a tree as quickly as
possible; but he did this in such haste that he found, to his dismay,
that he and the savage had chosen the same tree, and in the next instant
the savage was after him. The tree was a very large one, and Davy, in
his fright, went around it a number of times, so rapidly that he
presently caught sight of the back of the savage, and he was surprised
to see that he was no bigger than a large monkey; and, moreover, that he
was gorgeously dressed, in a beautiful blue coat, with brass buttons on
the tail of it, and pink striped trousers. He had hardly made this
discovery when the savage vanished as mysteriously as he had appeared,
and the next moment Davy came suddenly upon a high paling of logs, that
began at the tree and extended in a straight line far out into the
forest.

It was very puzzling to Davy when it occurred to him that, although he
had been around the tree at least a dozen times, he had never seen this
paling before, and a door that was in it also bothered him; for, though
it was quite an ordinary-looking door, it had no knob nor latch, nor,
indeed, any way of being opened that he could perceive. On one side of
it, in the paling, was a row of bell-pulls, marked:--

_Family_;
_Police_;
_Butcher_;
_Baker_;
_Candlestick-maker_;

and on the door itself was a large knocker, marked:--

+-------------+
| _Postman._ |
+-------------+

After examining all these Davy decided that, as he had a letter in
charge, he was more of a postman than anything else, and he therefore
raised the knocker and rapped loudly. Immediately all the bell-pulls
began flying in and out of their own accord, with a deafening clangor of
bells behind t