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    The Magic Fishbone
    The Magic Fishbone
    The Magic Fishbone
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    The Magic Fishbone

    By Charles Dickens

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    A children's story published in the All Year Round magazine in England and Our Young Folks magazine in the United States, in 1868, with the subtitle A Holiday Romance from the Pen of Miss Alice Rainbird, Age Seven: HOLIDAY ROMANCE FROM THE PEN OF MISS ALICE RAINBIRD AGED 7.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisheranboco
    Release dateAug 29, 2016
    ISBN9783736412637
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    Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.

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      A tale about knowing when to ask for help. Cute.

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    The Magic Fishbone - Charles Dickens

    FOREWORD

    CHARLES DICKENS

    THE MAGIC FISHBONE

    A HOLIDAY ROMANCE FROM THE PEN OF MISS ALICE RAINBIRD

    AGED 7.

    WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY S. BEATRICE PEARSE

    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

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