English

ONCE upon a time, on an uninhabited island on the shores of the Red Sea, there lived a man from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in splendour. And the man lived by the Red Sea with nothing but his hat and his knife and a cooking-stove of the kind that you must particularly never touch. And one day he took flour and water and currants and plums and sugar and things, and made himself one cake which was two feet across and three feet thick.