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The Magic Fishbone A Holiday Romance from the Pen of Miss Alice Rainbird, Aged 7
The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Magic Fishbone, by Charles Dickens, Illustrated by S. Beatrice Pearse
Title: The Magic Fishbone
A Holiday Romance from the Pen of Miss Alice Rainbird, Aged 7
Author: Charles Dickens
Release Date: November 5, 2007 [eBook #23344]
Language: English
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THE MAGIC FISHBONE
BY CHARLES DICKENS
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BY S. BEATRICE PEARSE
THE MAGIC
FISHBONE
A HOLIDAY ROMANCE
FROM THE PEN OF
MISS ALICE RAINBIRD
AGED 7.
BY
CHARLES DICKENS
LONDON: CONSTABLE AND CO. LTD.
FOREWORD
The story contained herein was written by Charles Dickens in 1867. It is the second of four stories entitled “Holiday Romance” and was published originally in a children’s magazine in America. It purports to be written by a child aged seven. It was republished in England in “All the Year Round” in 1868. For this and four other Christmas pieces Dickens received £1,000.
“Holiday Romance” was published in book form by Messrs Chapman & Hall in 1874, with “Edwin Drood” and other stories.
For this reprint the text of the story as it appeared in “All the Year Round” has been followed.
several of the children were growing out of their clothes
There was once a King, and he had a Queen; and he was the manliest of his sex, and she was the loveliest of hers. The King was, in his private profession, Under Government. The Queen’s father had been a medical man out of town.
They had nineteen children, and were always having more. Seventeen of these children took care of the baby; and Alicia, the eldest, took care of them all. Their ages varied from seven years to seven months.
One day the King was going to the office, when he stopped at the fishmonger’s to buy a pound and a half of salmon not too near the tail, which the Queen (who was a careful housekeeper) had requested him to send home. Mr Pickles, the fishmonger, said, “Certainly, sir, is there any other article,