The Magic Fishbone: A Holiday Romance from the Pen of Miss Alice Rainbird, Aged Seven - Couverture souple

Dickens, Charles

 
9780548839751: The Magic Fishbone: A Holiday Romance from the Pen of Miss Alice Rainbird, Aged Seven

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FOREWOR.D HE story contained herein was written by Charles Dickens in I 867. Itis the second offour stories entitled" Holiday Romance" and was published originally in a children's n1agazine in An1crica. It purports to be written by a child aged scven. It was republished in England in "All the Year Round" in I 868 . For this and four other Christmas pieces Dickens received £ 1,000. "Holiday Romance" was published in book form by Messrs Chapman & Hall in I .8 74, with" Edwin Drood" and other storIes. F or this reprint the text of the story as jt appeared in '( All the Y car Round" has been followed. SEVERAL OF THE CHILDREN WERE CkOWr:-:C OL"T OF THEIR CLOTIlES T HERE 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 Governll1ent. The Quecn's father had been a medical man out of town. They had ninete~jrthi)drcn, ~.nd. 'yere always having more. Seve

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