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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Magic Fishbone, by Charles Dickens,
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+Title: The Magic Fishbone
+       A Holiday Romance from the Pen of Miss Alice Rainbird, Aged 7
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+Author: Charles Dickens
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+Release Date: November 5, 2007  [eBook #23344]
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+THE MAGIC FISHBONE
+
+by
+
+CHARLES DICKENS
+
+With Illustrations by S. Beatrice Pearse
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: The Queen came in most splendidly dressed p. 27]
+
+
+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.
+
+
+                *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+[Illustration: 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.
+
+Let us now resume our story.
+
+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, Good-morning."
+
+The King went on towards the office in a melancholy mood, for quarter day
+was such a long way off, and several of the dear children were growing out
+of their clothes. He had not proceeded far, when Mr Pickles's errand-boy
+came running after him, and said, "Sir, you didn't notice the old lady in
+our shop."
+
+"What old lady?" enquired the King. "I saw none."
+
+Now, the King had not seen any old lady, because this old lady had been
+invisible to him, though visible to Mr Pickles's boy. Probably because he
+messed and splashed the water about to that degree, and flopped the pairs
+of soles down in that violent manner, that, if she had not been visible to
+him, he would have spoilt her clothes.
+
+Just then the old lady came trotting up. She was dressed in shot-silk of
+the richest quality, smelling of dried lavender.
+
+"King Watkins the First, I believe?" said the old lady.
+
+"Watkins," replied the King, "is my name."
+
+"Papa, if I am not mistaken, of the beautiful Princess Alicia?" said the
+old lady.
+
+"And of eighteen other darlings," replied the King.
+
+"Listen. You are going to the office," said the old lady.
+
+It instantly flashed upon the King that she must be a Fairy, or how could
+she know that?
+
+"You are right," said the old lady, answering his thoughts, "I am the Good
+Fairy Grandmarina. Attend. When you return home to dinner, politely invite
+the Princess Alicia to have some of the salmon you bought just now."
+
+"It may disagree with her," said the King.
+
+The old lady became so very angry at this absurd idea, that the King was
+quite alarmed, and humbly begged her pardon.
+
+"We hear a great deal too much about this thing disagreeing, and that
+thing disagreeing," said the old lady, with the greatest contempt it was
+possible to express. "Don't be greedy. I think you want it all yourself."
+
+The King hung his head under this reproof, and said he wouldn't talk about
+things disagreeing, any more.
+
+"Be good, then," said the Fairy Grandmarina, "and don't! When the
+beautiful Princess Alicia consents to partake of the salmon--as I think
+she will--you will find she will leave a fish-bone on her plate. Tell
+her to dry it, and to rub it, and to polish it till it shines like
+mother-of-pearl, and to take care of it as a present from me."
+
+"Is that all?" asked the King.
+
+"Don't be impatient, sir," returned the Fairy Grandmarina, scolding him
+severely. "Don't catch people short, before they have done speaking. Just
+the way with you grown-up persons. You are always doing it."
+
+The King again hung his head, and said he wouldn't do so any more.
+
+"Be good then," said the Fairy Grandmarina, "and don't! Tell the Princess
+Alicia, with my love, that the fish-bone is a magic present which can only
+be used once; but that it will bring her, that once, whatever she wishes
+for, PROVIDED SHE WISHES FOR IT AT THE RIGHT TIME. That is the
+message. Take care of it."
+
+[Illustration: HOITY TOITY ME!]
+
+The King was beginning, "Might I ask the reason--?" when the Fairy became
+absolutely furious.
+
+"_Will_ you be good, sir?" she exclaimed, stamping her foot on the ground.
+"The reason for this, and the reason for that, indeed! You are always
+wanting the reason. No reason. There! Hoity toity me! I am sick of your
+grown-up reasons."
+
+The King was extremely frightened by the old lady's flying into such a
+passion, and said he was very sorry to have offended her, and he wouldn't
+ask for reasons any more.
+
+"Be good then," said the old lady, "and don't!"
+
+With those words, Grandmarina vanished, and the King went on and on and
+on, till he came to the office. There he wrote and wrote and wrote, till
+it was time to go home again. Then he politely invited the Princess
+Alicia, as the Fairy had directed him, to partake of the salmon. And
+when she had enjoyed it very much, he saw the fish-bone on her plate, as
+the Fairy had told him he would, and he delivered the Fairy's message, and
+the Princess Alicia took care to dry the bone, and to rub it, and to
+polish it till it shone like mother-of-pearl.
+
+[Illustration: He saw the Fish-bone on her Plate]
+
+And so when the Queen was going to get up in the morning, she said, "O,
+dear me, dear me; my head, my head!" and then she fainted away.
+
+The Princess Alicia, who happened to be looking in at the chamber-door,
+asking about breakfast, was very much alarmed when she saw her Royal Mamma
+in this state, and she rang the bell for Peggy, which was the name of the
+Lord Chamberlain. But remembering where the smelling-bottle was, she
+climbed on a chair and got it, and after that she climbed on another chair
+by the bedside and held the smelling-bottle to the Queen's nose, and after
+that she jumped down and got some water, and after that she jumped up
+again and wetted the Queen's forehead, and, in short, when the Lord
+Chamberlain came in, that dear old woman said to the little Princess,
+"What a Trot you are! I couldn't have done it better myself!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But that was not the worst of the good Queen's illness. O, no! She was
+very ill indeed, for a long time. The Princess Alicia kept the seventeen
+young Princes and Princesses quiet, and dressed and undressed and danced
+the baby, and made the kettle boil, and heated the soup, and swept the
+hearth, and poured out the medicine, and nursed the Queen, and did all
+that ever she could, and was as busy busy busy, as busy could be. For
+there were not many servants at that Palace, for three reasons; because
+the King was short of money, because a rise in his office never seemed to
+come, and because quarter day was so far off that it looked almost as far
+off and as little as one of the stars.
+
+But on the morning when the Queen fainted away, where was the magic
+fish-bone? Why, there it was in the Princess Alicia's pocket. She had
+almost taken it out to bring the Queen to life again, when she put it
+back, and looked for the smelling-bottle.
+
+After the Queen had come out of her swoon that morning, and was dozing,
+the Princess Alicia hurried up-stairs to tell a most particular secret to
+a most particularly confidential friend of hers, who was a Duchess. People
+did suppose her to be a Doll; but she was really a Duchess, though nobody
+knew it except the Princess.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+This most particular secret was a secret about the magic fish-bone, the
+history of which was well known to the Duchess, because the Princess told
+her everything. The Princess kneeled down by the bed on which the Duchess
+was lying, full-dressed and wide awake, and whispered the secret to her.
+The Duchess smiled and nodded. People might have supposed that she never
+smiled and nodded, but she often did, though nobody knew it except the
+Princess.
+
+Then the Princess Alicia hurried downstairs again, to keep watch in the
+Queen's room. She often kept watch by herself in the Queen's room; but
+every evening, while the illness lasted, she sat there watching with the
+King. And every evening the King sat looking at her with a cross look,
+wondering why she never brought out the magic fish-bone. As often as she
+noticed this, she ran up-stairs, whispered the secret to the Duchess over
+again, and said to the Duchess besides, "They think we children never have
+a reason or a meaning!" And the Duchess, though the most fashionable
+Duchess that ever was heard of, winked her eye.
+
+"Alicia," said the King, one evening when she wished him Good Night.
+
+"Yes, Papa."
+
+"What is become of the magic fish-bone?"
+
+"In my pocket, Papa."
+
+"I thought you had lost it?"
+
+"O, no, Papa."
+
+"Or forgotten it?"
+
+"No, indeed, Papa."
+
+And so another time the dreadful little snapping pug-dog next door made a
+rush at one of the young Princes as he stood on the steps coming home from
+school, and terrified him out of his wits and he put his hand through a
+pane of glass, and bled bled bled. When the seventeen other young Princes
+and Princesses saw him bleed bleed bleed, they were terrified out of their
+wits too, and screamed themselves black in their seventeen faces all at
+once. But the Princess Alicia put her hands over all their seventeen
+mouths, one after another, and persuaded them to be quiet because of the
+sick Queen. And then she put the wounded Prince's hand in a basin of fresh
+cold water, while they stared with their twice seventeen are thirty-four
+put down four and carry three eyes, and then she looked in the hand for
+bits of glass, and there were fortunately no bits of glass there. And
+then she said to two chubby-legged Princes who were sturdy though small,
+"Bring me in the Royal rag-bag; I must snip and stitch and cut and
+contrive." So those two young Princes tugged at the Royal rag-bag and
+lugged it in, and the Princess Alicia sat down on the floor with a large
+pair of scissors and a needle and thread, and snipped and stitched and
+cut and contrived, and made a bandage and put it on, and it fitted
+beautifully, and so when it was all done she saw the King her Papa
+looking on by the door.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Alicia."
+
+"Yes, Papa."
+
+"What have you been doing?"
+
+"Snipping stitching cutting and contriving, Papa."
+
+"Where is the magic fish-bone?"
+
+"In my pocket, Papa."
+
+"I thought you had lost it?"
+
+"O, no, Papa."
+
+"Or forgotten it?"
+
+"No, indeed, Papa."
+
+After that, she ran up-stairs to the Duchess and told her what had passed,
+and told her the secret over again, and the Duchess shook her flaxen curls
+and laughed with her rosy lips.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Well! and so another time the baby fell under the grate. The seventeen
+young Princes and Princesses were used to it, for they were almost always
+falling under the grate or down the stairs, but the baby was not used to
+it yet, and it gave him a swelled face and a black eye. The way the poor
+little darling came to tumble was, that he slid out of the Princess
+Alicia's lap just as she was sitting in a great coarse apron that quite
+smothered her, in front of the kitchen-fire, beginning to peel the turnips
+for the broth for dinner; and the way she came to be doing that was, that
+the King's cook had run away that morning with her own true love who was a
+very tall but very tipsy soldier. Then, the seventeen young Princes and
+Princesses, who cried at everything that happened, cried and roared. But
+the Princess Alicia (who couldn't help crying a little herself) quietly
+called to them to be still, on account of not throwing back the Queen
+up-stairs, who was fast getting well, and said, "Hold your tongues, you
+wicked little monkeys, every one of you, while I examine baby!" Then she
+examined baby, and found that he hadn't broken anything, and she held
+cold iron to his poor dear eye, and smoothed his poor dear face, and he
+presently fell asleep in her arms. Then, she said to the seventeen Princes
+and Princesses, "I am afraid to lay him down yet, lest he should wake and
+feel pain, be good, and you shall all be cooks." They jumped for joy when
+they heard that, and began making themselves cooks' caps out of old
+newspapers. So to one she gave the salt-box, and to one she gave the
+barley, and to one she gave the herbs, and to one she gave the turnips,
+and to one she gave the carrots, and to one she gave the onions, and to
+one she gave the spice-box, till they were all cooks, and all running
+about at work, she sitting in the middle smothered in the great coarse
+apron, nursing baby. By and by the broth was done, and the baby woke up
+smiling like an angel, and was trusted to the sedatest Princess to hold,
+while the other Princes and Princesses were squeezed into a far-off corner
+to look at the Princess Alicia turning out the saucepan-full of broth,
+for fear (as they were always getting into trouble) they should get
+splashed and scalded. When the broth came tumbling out, steaming
+beautifully, and smelling like a nosegay good to eat, they clapped their
+hands. That made the baby clap his hands; and that, and his looking as if
+he had a comic toothache, made all the Princes and Princesses laugh. So
+the Princess Alicia said, "Laugh and be good, and after dinner we will
+make him a nest on the floor in a corner, and he shall sit in his nest
+and see a dance of eighteen cooks." That delighted the young Princes and
+Princesses, and they ate up all the broth, and washed up all the plates
+and dishes, and cleared away, and pushed the table into a corner, and
+then they in their cooks' caps, and the Princess Alicia in the smothering
+coarse apron that belonged to the cook that had run away with her own true
+love that was the very tall but very tipsy soldier, danced a dance of
+eighteen cooks before the angelic baby, who forgot his swelled face and
+his black eye, and crowed with joy.
+
+[Illustration: The Dance of the Eighteen Cooks]
+
+And so then, once more the Princess Alicia saw King Watkins the First,
+her father, standing in the doorway looking on, and he said: "What have
+you been doing, Alicia?"
+
+"Cooking and contriving, Papa."
+
+"What else have you been doing, Alicia?"
+
+"Keeping the children light-hearted, Papa."
+
+"Where is the magic fish-bone, Alicia?"
+
+"In my pocket, Papa."
+
+"I thought you had lost it?"
+
+"O, no, Papa."
+
+"Or forgotten it?"
+
+"No, indeed, Papa."
+
+The King then sighed so heavily, and seemed so low-spirited, and sat down
+so miserably, leaning his head upon his hand, and his elbow upon the
+kitchen table pushed away in the corner, that the seventeen Princes and
+Princesses crept softly out of the kitchen, and left him alone with the
+Princess Alicia and the angelic baby.
+
+"What is the matter, Papa?"
+
+"I am dreadfully poor, my child."
+
+"Have you no money at all, Papa?"
+
+[Illustration: "What is the matter, Papa?"]
+
+"None my child."
+
+"Is there no way left of getting any, Papa?"
+
+"No way," said the King. "I have tried very hard, and I have tried all
+ways."
+
+When she heard those last words, the Princess Alicia began to put her hand
+into the pocket where she kept the magic fish-bone.
+
+"Papa," said she, "when we have tried very hard, and tried all ways, we
+must have done our very very best?"
+
+"No doubt, Alicia."
+
+"When we have done our very very best, Papa, and that is not enough, then
+I think the right time must have come for asking help of others." This was
+the very secret connected with the magic fish-bone, which she had found
+out for herself from the good fairy Grandmarina's words, and which she had
+so often whispered to her beautiful and fashionable friend the Duchess.
+
+So she took out of her pocket the magic fish-bone that had been dried and
+rubbed and polished till it shone like mother-of-pearl; and she gave it
+one little kiss and wished it was quarter day. And immediately it _was_
+quarter day; and the King's quarter's salary came rattling down the
+chimney, and bounced into the middle of the floor.
+
+But this was not half of what happened, no not a quarter, for immediately
+afterwards the good fairy Grandmarina came riding in, in a carriage and
+four (Peacocks), with Mr Pickles's boy up behind, dressed in silver and
+gold, with a cocked hat, powdered hair, pink silk stockings, a jewelled
+cane, and a nosegay. Down jumped Mr Pickles's boy with his cocked hat in
+his hand and wonderfully polite (being entirely changed by enchantment),
+and handed Grandmarina out, and there she stood in her rich shot silk
+smelling of dried lavender, fanning herself with a sparkling fan.
+
+"Alicia, my dear," said this charming old Fairy, "how do you do, I hope I
+see you pretty well, give me a kiss."
+
+The Princess Alicia embraced her, and then Grandmarina turned to the King,
+and said rather sharply:--"Are you good?"
+
+[Illustration: "Alicia, my dear ... how do you do?"]
+
+The King said he hoped so.
+
+"I suppose you know the reason, _now_, why my god-Daughter here," kissing
+the Princess again, "did not apply to the fish-bone sooner?" said the
+Fairy.
+
+The King made her a shy bow.
+
+"Ah! but you didn't _then_!" said the Fairy.
+
+The King made her a shyer bow.
+
+"Any more reasons to ask for?" said the Fairy.
+
+The King said no, and he was very sorry.
+
+"Be good then," said the Fairy, "and live happy ever afterwards."
+
+Then, Grandmarina waved her fan, and the Queen came in most splendidly
+dressed, and the seventeen young Princes and Princesses, no longer grown
+out of their clothes, came in newly fitted out from top to toe, with tucks
+in everything to admit of its being let out. After that, the Fairy tapped
+the Princess Alicia with her fan, and the smothering coarse apron flew
+away, and she appeared exquisitely dressed, like a little Bride, with
+a wreath of orange-flowers and a silver veil. After that, the kitchen
+dresser changed of itself into a wardrobe, made of beautiful woods and
+gold and looking glass, which was full of dresses of all sorts, all for
+her and all exactly fitting her. After that, the angelic baby came in,
+running alone, with his face and eye not a bit the worse but much the
+better. Then, Grandmarina begged to be introduced to the Duchess, and,
+when the Duchess was brought down many compliments passed between them.
+
+A little whispering took place between the Fairy and the Duchess, and
+then the Fairy said out loud, "Yes. I thought she would have told you."
+Grandmarina then turned to the King and Queen, and said, "We are going
+in search of Prince Certainpersonio. The pleasure of your company is
+requested at church in half an hour precisely." So she and the Princess
+Alicia got into the carriage, and Mr Pickles's boy handed in the Duchess
+who sat by herself on the opposite seat, and then Mr Pickles's boy put up
+the steps and got up behind, and the Peacocks flew away with their tails
+spread.
+
+[Illustration: She appeared exquisitely dressed, like a little Bride]
+
+Prince Certainpersonio was sitting by himself, eating barley-sugar
+and waiting to be ninety. When he saw the Peacocks followed by the
+carriage, coming in at the window, it immediately occurred to him that
+something uncommon was going to happen.
+
+"Prince," said Grandmarina, "I bring you your Bride."
+
+The moment the Fairy said those words, Prince Certainpersonio's face left
+off being stickey, and his jacket and corduroys changed to peach-bloom
+velvet, and his hair curled, and a cap and feather flew in like a bird and
+settled on his head. He got into the carriage by the Fairy's invitation,
+and there he renewed his acquaintance with the Duchess, whom he had seen
+before.
+
+In the church were the Prince's relations and friends, and the Princess
+Alicia's relations and friends, and the seventeen Princes and Princesses,
+and the baby, and a crowd of the neighbours. The marriage was beautiful
+beyond expression. The Duchess was bridesmaid, and beheld the ceremony
+from the pulpit where she was supported by the cushion of the desk.
+
+Grandmarina gave a magnificent wedding feast afterwards, in which there
+was everything and more to eat, and everything and more to drink. The
+wedding cake was delicately ornamented with white satin ribbons, frosted
+silver and white lilies, and was forty-two yards round.
+
+When Grandmarina had drunk her love to the young couple, and Prince
+Certainpersonio had made a speech, and everybody had cried Hip hip hip
+hurrah! Grandmarina announced to the King and Queen that in future there
+would be eight quarter days in every year, except in leap year, when there
+would be ten. She then turned to Certainpersonio and Alicia, and said, "My
+dears, you will have thirty-five children, and they will all be good and
+beautiful. Seventeen of your children will be boys, and eighteen will be
+girls. The hair of the whole of your children will curl naturally. They
+will never have the measles, and will have recovered from the
+whooping-cough before being born."
+
+On hearing such good news, everybody cried out "Hip hip hip hurrah!"
+again.
+
+"It only remains," said Grandmarina in conclusion, "to make an end of the
+fish-bone."
+
+So she took it from the hand of the Princess Alicia, and it instantly flew
+down the throat of the dreadful little snapping pug-dog next door and
+choked him, and he expired in convulsions.
+
+
+THE END
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+                *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+PRINTED AT THE ARDEN PRESS, LETCHWORTH, ENGLAND.
+
+FIRST IMPRESSION, TWELVE THOUSAND COPIES, SEPT. MCMXI:
+SECOND IMPRESSION, TWELVE THOUSAND COPIES, DEC. MCMXI
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+<h1>The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Magic Fishbone, by Charles Dickens,
+Illustrated by S. Beatrice Pearse</h1>
+<pre>
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at <a href = "http://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></pre>
+<p>Title: The Magic Fishbone</p>
+<p>       A Holiday Romance from the Pen of Miss Alice Rainbird, Aged 7</p>
+<p>Author: Charles Dickens</p>
+<p>Release Date: November 5, 2007  [eBook #23344]</p>
+<p>Language: English</p>
+<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p>
+<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MAGIC FISHBONE***</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h4 class="pg">E-text prepared by Anne Storer<br />
+    and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br />
+    (<a href="http://www.pgdp.net/c/">http://www.pgdp.net</a>)<br />
+    from digital material generously made available by<br />
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+    (<a href="http://www.archive.org/details/americana">http://www.archive.org/details/americana</a>)</h4>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<table border="0" style="background-color: #ccccff;" cellpadding="10">
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+</table>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[Pg 1]</span></p>
+<h1>THE MAGIC FISHBONE<br />
+BY CHARLES DICKENS</h1>
+
+<h2>WITH ILLUSTRATIONS<br />
+BY S. BEATRICE PEARSE</h2>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[Pg 4]</span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 406px;">
+<img src="images/img5.jpg" width="406" height="533" alt="The Queen" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[Pg 5]</span></p>
+
+<h3>THE MAGIC<br />
+FISHBONE</h3>
+
+<h2>A HOLIDAY ROMANCE<br />
+FROM THE PEN OF<br />
+MISS ALICE RAINBIRD<br />
+AGED 7.</h2>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<h1>BY<br />
+CHARLES DICKENS</h1>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<p class="center"><strong>LONDON: CONSTABLE AND CO. LTD.</strong></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[Pg 6]</span></p>
+<h2>FOREWORD</h2>
+
+
+<p>The story contained herein was written by Charles Dickens in 1867. It is
+the second of four stories entitled &ldquo;Holiday Romance&rdquo; and was published
+originally in a children&#8217;s magazine in America. It purports to be written
+by a child aged seven. It was republished in England in &ldquo;All the Year
+Round&rdquo; in 1868. For this and four other Christmas pieces Dickens received
+&pound;1,000.</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Holiday Romance&rdquo; was published in book form by Messrs Chapman &amp; Hall in
+1874, with &ldquo;Edwin Drood&rdquo; and other stories.</p>
+
+<p>For this reprint the text of the story as it appeared in &ldquo;All the Year
+Round&rdquo; has been followed.</p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[Pg 7]</span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 540px;">
+<img src="images/img8.jpg" width="540" height="347" alt="Growing out of their clothes" title="" />
+<span class="caption">several of the children were growing out of their clothes</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<p>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&#8217;s father had been a medical man
+out of town.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[Pg 8]</span>Let us now resume our story.</p>
+
+<p>One day the King was going to the office, when he stopped at the
+fishmonger&#8217;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, &ldquo;Certainly, sir, is there any
+other article, Good-morning.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>The King went on towards the office in a melancholy mood, for quarter day
+was such a long way off, and several of the dear children were growing out
+of their clothes. He had not proceeded far, when Mr Pickles&#8217;s errand-boy
+came running after him, and said, &ldquo;Sir, you didn&#8217;t notice the old lady in
+our shop.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;What old lady?&rdquo; enquired the King. &ldquo;I saw none.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>Now, the King had not seen any old lady, because this old lady had been
+invisible to him, though visible to Mr Pickles&#8217;s boy. Probably because he
+messed and splashed the water about to that degree, and flopped the pairs
+of soles down in that violent manner, that, if she had not been visible to
+him, he would have spoilt her clothes.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[Pg 9]</span>
+Just then the old lady came trotting up. She was dressed in shot-silk of
+the richest quality, smelling of dried lavender.</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;King Watkins the First, I believe?&rdquo; said the old lady.</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Watkins,&rdquo; replied the King, &ldquo;is my name.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Papa, if I am not mistaken, of the beautiful Princess Alicia?&rdquo; said the
+old lady.</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;And of eighteen other darlings,&rdquo; replied the King.</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Listen. You are going to the office,&rdquo; said the old lady.</p>
+
+<p>It instantly flashed upon the King that she must be a Fairy, or how could
+she know that?</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;You are right,&rdquo; said the old lady, answering his thoughts, &ldquo;I am the Good
+Fairy Grandmarina. Attend. When you return home to dinner, politely invite
+the Princess Alicia to have some of the salmon you bought just now.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;It may disagree with her,&rdquo; said the King.</p>
+
+<p>The old lady became so very angry at this absurd idea, that the King was
+quite alarmed, and humbly begged her pardon.</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;We hear a great deal too much about this thing
+<span class='pagenum'>[Pg 10]</span> disagreeing, and that
+thing disagreeing,&rdquo; said the old lady, with the greatest contempt it was
+possible to express. &ldquo;Don&#8217;t be greedy. I think you want it all yourself.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>The King hung his head under this reproof, and said he wouldn&#8217;t talk about
+things disagreeing, any more.</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Be good, then,&rdquo; said the Fairy Grandmarina, &ldquo;and don&#8217;t! When the
+beautiful Princess Alicia consents to partake of the salmon&mdash;as I think
+she will&mdash;you will find she will leave a fish-bone on her plate. Tell
+her to dry it, and to rub it, and to polish it till it shines like
+mother-of-pearl, and to take care of it as a present from me.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Is that all?&rdquo; asked the King.</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Don&#8217;t be impatient, sir,&rdquo; returned the Fairy Grandmarina, scolding him
+severely. &ldquo;Don&#8217;t catch people short, before they have done speaking. Just
+the way with you grown-up persons. You are always doing it.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>The King again hung his head, and said he wouldn&#8217;t do so any more.</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Be good then,&rdquo; said the Fairy Grandmarina, &ldquo;and
+<span class='pagenum'>[Pg 12]</span>don&#8217;t! Tell the Princess
+Alicia, with my love, that the fish-bone is a magic present which can only
+be used once; but that it will bring her, that once, whatever she wishes
+for, <span class="smcap">provided she wishes for it at the right time</span>. That is the
+message. Take care of it.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 348px;">
+<img src="images/img12.jpg" width="348" height="385" alt="Hoity toity me" title="" />
+<span class="caption">hoity toity me!</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>The King was beginning, &ldquo;Might I ask the reason&mdash;?&rdquo; when the Fairy became
+absolutely furious.</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;<em>Will</em> you be good, sir?&rdquo; she exclaimed, stamping her foot on the ground.
+&ldquo;The reason for this, and the reason for that, indeed! You are always
+wanting the reason. No reason. There! Hoity toity me! I am sick of your
+grown-up reasons.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>The King was extremely frightened by the old lady&#8217;s flying into such a
+passion, and said he was very sorry to have offended her, and he wouldn&#8217;t
+ask for reasons any more.</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Be good then,&rdquo; said the old lady, &ldquo;and don&#8217;t!&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>With those words, Grandmarina vanished, and the King went on and on and
+on, till he came to the office. There he wrote and wrote and wrote, till
+it was time to go home again. Then he politely invited the Princess
+Alicia, as the Fairy had directed him, to partake of the
+<span class='pagenum'>[Pg 13]</span> salmon. And
+when she had enjoyed it very much, he saw the fish-bone on her plate, as
+the Fairy had told him he would, and he delivered the Fairy&#8217;s message, and
+the Princess Alicia took care to dry the bone, and to rub it, and to
+polish it till it shone like mother-of-pearl.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 405px;">
+<img src="images/img14.jpg" width="405" height="540" alt="Fishbone on her plate" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>And so when the Queen was going to get up in the morning, she said, &ldquo;O,
+dear me, dear me; my head, my head!&rdquo; and then she fainted away.</p>
+
+<p>The Princess Alicia, who happened to be looking in at the chamber-door,
+asking about breakfast, was very much alarmed when she saw her Royal Mamma
+in this state, and she rang the bell for Peggy, which was the name of the
+Lord Chamberlain. But remembering where the smelling-bottle was, she
+climbed on a chair and got it, and after that she climbed on another chair
+by the bedside and held the smelling-bottle to the Queen&#8217;s nose, and after
+that she jumped down and got some water, and after that she jumped up
+again and wetted the Queen&#8217;s forehead, and, in short, when the Lord
+Chamberlain came in, that dear old woman said to
+<span class='pagenum'>[Pg 15]</span> the little Princess,
+&ldquo;What a Trot you are! I couldn&#8217;t have done it better myself!&rdquo;</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 341px;">
+<img src="images/img17.jpg" width="341" height="370" alt="Illustration" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>But that was not the worst of the good Queen&#8217;s illness. O, no! She was
+very ill indeed, for a long time. The Princess Alicia kept the seventeen
+young Princes and Princesses quiet, and dressed and undressed and danced
+the baby, and made the kettle boil, and heated the soup, and swept the
+hearth, and poured out the medicine, and nursed the Queen, and did all
+that ever she could, and was as busy busy busy, as busy could be. For
+there were not many servants at that Palace, for three reasons; because
+the King was short of money, because a rise in his office never seemed to
+come, and because quarter day was so far off that it looked almost as far
+off and as little as one of the stars.</p>
+
+<p>But on the morning when the Queen fainted away, where was the magic
+fish-bone? Why, there it was in the Princess Alicia&#8217;s pocket. She had
+almost taken it out to bring the Queen to life again, when she put it
+back, and looked for the smelling-bottle.</p>
+
+<p>After the Queen had come out of her swoon that
+<span class='pagenum'>[Pg 16]</span> morning, and was dozing,
+the Princess Alicia hurried up-stairs to tell a most particular secret to
+a most particularly confidential friend of hers, who was a Duchess. People
+did suppose her to be a Doll; but she was really a Duchess, though nobody
+knew it except the Princess.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 376px;">
+<img src="images/img19.jpg" width="376" height="336" alt="Illustration" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>This most particular secret was a secret about the magic fish-bone, the
+history of which was well known to the Duchess, because the Princess told
+her everything. The Princess kneeled down by the bed
+<span class='pagenum'>[Pg 17]</span> on which the Duchess
+was lying, full-dressed and wide awake, and whispered the secret to her.
+The Duchess smiled and nodded. People might have supposed that she never
+smiled and nodded, but she often did, though nobody knew it except the
+Princess.</p>
+
+<p>Then the Princess Alicia hurried downstairs again, to keep watch in the
+Queen&#8217;s room. She often kept watch by herself in the Queen&#8217;s room; but
+every evening, while the illness lasted, she sat there watching with the
+King. And every evening the King sat looking at her with a cross look,
+wondering why she never brought out the magic fish-bone. As often as she
+noticed this, she ran up-stairs, whispered the secret to the Duchess over
+again, and said to the Duchess besides, &ldquo;They think we children never have
+a reason or a meaning!&rdquo; And the Duchess, though the most fashionable
+Duchess that ever was heard of, winked her eye.</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Alicia,&rdquo; said the King, one evening when she wished him Good Night.</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Yes, Papa.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;What is become of the magic fish-bone?&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[Pg 18]</span>&ldquo;In my pocket, Papa.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;I thought you had lost it?&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;O, no, Papa.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Or forgotten it?&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;No, indeed, Papa.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>And so another time the dreadful little snapping pug-dog next door made a
+rush at one of the young Princes as he stood on the steps coming home from
+school, and terrified him out of his wits and he put his hand through a
+pane of glass, and bled bled bled. When the seventeen other young Princes
+and Princesses saw him bleed bleed bleed, they were terrified out of their
+wits too, and screamed themselves black in their seventeen faces all at
+once. But the Princess Alicia put her hands over all their seventeen
+mouths, one after another, and persuaded them to be quiet because of the
+sick Queen. And then she put the wounded Prince&#8217;s hand in a basin of fresh
+cold water, while they stared with their twice seventeen are thirty-four
+put down four and carry three eyes, and then she looked in the hand for
+bits of glass, and there were fortunately no bits of glass
+<span class='pagenum'>[Pg 19]</span> there. And
+then she said to two chubby-legged Princes who were sturdy though small,
+&ldquo;Bring me in the Royal rag-bag; I must snip and stitch and cut and
+contrive.&rdquo; So those two young Princes tugged at the Royal rag-bag and
+lugged it in, and the Princess Alicia sat down on the floor with a large
+pair of scissors and a needle and thread, and snipped and stitched and
+cut and contrived, and made a bandage and put it on, and it fitted
+beautifully, and so when it was all done she saw the King her Papa
+looking on by the door.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 505px;">
+<img src="images/img22.jpg" width="505" height="321" alt="Illustration" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[Pg 20]</span>&ldquo;Alicia.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Yes, Papa.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;What have you been doing?&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Snipping stitching cutting and contriving, Papa.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Where is the magic fish-bone?&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;In my pocket, Papa.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;I thought you had lost it?&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;O, no, Papa.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Or forgotten it?&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;No, indeed, Papa.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>After that, she ran up-stairs to the Duchess and told her what had passed,
+and told her the secret over again, and the Duchess shook her flaxen curls
+and laughed with her rosy lips.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 268px;">
+<img src="images/img24.jpg" width="268" height="353" alt="Illustration" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Well! and so another time the baby fell under the grate. The seventeen
+young Princes and Princesses were used to it, for they were almost always
+falling under the grate or down the stairs, but the baby was not used to
+it yet, and it gave him a swelled face and a black eye. The way the poor
+little darling came to tumble was, that he slid out of the Princess
+Alicia&#8217;s lap just as she was sitting in a great coarse apron
+<span class='pagenum'>[Pg 21]</span> that quite
+smothered her, in front of the kitchen-fire, beginning to peel the turnips
+for the broth for dinner; and the way she came to be doing that was, that
+the King&#8217;s cook had run away that morning with her own true love who was a
+very tall but very tipsy soldier. Then, the seventeen young Princes and
+Princesses, who cried at everything that happened, cried and roared. But
+the Princess Alicia (who couldn&#8217;t help crying a little herself) quietly
+called to them to be still, on account of not throwing back the Queen
+<span class='pagenum'>[Pg 22]</span>
+up-stairs, who was fast getting well, and said, &ldquo;Hold your tongues, you
+wicked little monkeys, every one of you, while I examine baby!&rdquo; Then she
+examined baby, and found that he hadn&#8217;t broken anything, and she held
+cold iron to his poor dear eye, and smoothed his poor dear face, and he
+presently fell asleep in her arms. Then, she said to the seventeen Princes
+and Princesses, &ldquo;I am afraid to lay him down yet, lest he should wake and
+feel pain, be good, and you shall all be cooks.&rdquo; They jumped for joy when
+they heard that, and began making themselves cooks&#8217; caps out of old
+newspapers. So to one she gave the salt-box, and to one she gave the
+barley, and to one she gave the herbs, and to one she gave the turnips,
+and to one she gave the carrots, and to one she gave the onions, and to
+one she gave the spice-box, till they were all cooks, and all running
+about at work, she sitting in the middle smothered in the great coarse
+apron, nursing baby. By and by the broth was done, and the baby woke up
+smiling like an angel, and was trusted to the sedatest Princess to hold,
+while the other Princes and Princesses were squeezed into a far-off corner
+to look at the Princess<span class='pagenum'>[Pg 23]</span>
+Alicia turning out the saucepan-full of broth,
+for fear (as they were always getting into trouble) they should get
+splashed and scalded. When the broth came tumbling out, steaming
+beautifully, and smelling like a nosegay good to eat, they clapped their
+hands. That made the baby clap his hands; and that, and his looking as if
+he had a comic toothache, made all the Princes and Princesses laugh. So
+the Princess Alicia said, &ldquo;Laugh and be good, and after dinner we will
+make him a nest on the floor in a corner, and he shall sit in his nest
+and see a dance of eighteen cooks.&rdquo; That delighted the young Princes and
+Princesses, and they ate up all the broth, and washed up all the plates
+and dishes, and cleared away, and pushed the table into a corner, and
+then they in their cooks&#8217; caps, and the Princess Alicia in the smothering
+coarse apron that belonged to the cook that had run away with her own true
+love that was the very tall but very tipsy soldier, danced a dance of
+eighteen cooks before the angelic baby, who forgot his swelled face and
+his black eye, and crowed with joy.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 409px;">
+<img src="images/img26.jpg" width="409" height="536" alt="The Dance of the Eighteen Cooks" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>And so then, once more the Princess Alicia saw
+<span class='pagenum'>[Pg 24]</span> King Watkins the First,
+her father, standing in the doorway looking on, and he said: &ldquo;What have
+you been doing, Alicia?&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Cooking and contriving, Papa.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;What else have you been doing, Alicia?&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Keeping the children light-hearted, Papa.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Where is the magic fish-bone, Alicia?&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;In my pocket, Papa.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;I thought you had lost it?&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;O, no, Papa.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Or forgotten it?&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;No, indeed, Papa.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>The King then sighed so heavily, and seemed so low-spirited, and sat down
+so miserably, leaning his head upon his hand, and his elbow upon the
+kitchen table pushed away in the corner, that the seventeen Princes and
+Princesses crept softly out of the kitchen, and left him alone with the
+Princess Alicia and the angelic baby.</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;What is the matter, Papa?&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;I am dreadfully poor, my child.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Have you no money at all, Papa?&rdquo;</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 410px;">
+<img src="images/img30.jpg" width="410" height="537" alt="What is the matter Papa" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[Pg 25]</span>&ldquo;None my child.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Is there no way left of getting any, Papa?&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;No way,&rdquo; said the King. &ldquo;I have tried very hard, and I have tried all
+ways.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>When she heard those last words, the Princess Alicia began to put her hand
+into the pocket where she kept the magic fish-bone.</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Papa,&rdquo; said she, &ldquo;when we have tried very hard, and tried all ways, we
+must have done our very very best?&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;No doubt, Alicia.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;When we have done our very very best, Papa, and that is not enough, then
+I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.&rdquo; This was
+the very secret connected with the magic fish-bone, which she had found
+out for herself from the good fairy Grandmarina&#8217;s words, and which she had
+so often whispered to her beautiful and fashionable friend the Duchess.</p>
+
+<p>So she took out of her pocket the magic fish-bone that had been dried and
+rubbed and polished till it shone like mother-of-pearl; and she gave it
+one<span class='pagenum'>[Pg 26]</span> little kiss and wished it was
+quarter day. And immediately it <em>was</em>
+quarter day; and the King&#8217;s quarter&#8217;s salary came rattling down the
+chimney, and bounced into the middle of the floor.</p>
+
+<p>But this was not half of what happened, no not a quarter, for immediately
+afterwards the good fairy Grandmarina came riding in, in a carriage and
+four (Peacocks), with Mr Pickles&#8217;s boy up behind, dressed in silver and
+gold, with a cocked hat, powdered hair, pink silk stockings, a jewelled
+cane, and a nosegay. Down jumped Mr Pickles&#8217;s boy with his cocked hat in
+his hand and wonderfully polite (being entirely changed by enchantment),
+and handed Grandmarina out, and there she stood in her rich shot silk
+smelling of dried lavender, fanning herself with a sparkling fan.</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Alicia, my dear,&rdquo; said this charming old Fairy, &ldquo;how do you do, I hope I
+see you pretty well, give me a kiss.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>The Princess Alicia embraced her, and then Grandmarina turned to the King,
+and said rather sharply:&mdash;&ldquo;Are you good?&rdquo;</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 412px;">
+<img src="images/img34.jpg" width="412" height="538" alt="Alicia my dear" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[Pg 27]</span>The King said he hoped so.</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;I suppose you know the reason, <em>now</em>, why my god-Daughter here,&rdquo; kissing
+the Princess again, &ldquo;did not apply to the fish-bone sooner?&rdquo; said the
+Fairy.</p>
+
+<p>The King made her a shy bow.</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Ah! but you didn&#8217;t <em>then</em>!&rdquo; said the Fairy.</p>
+
+<p>The King made her a shyer bow.</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Any more reasons to ask for?&rdquo; said the Fairy.</p>
+
+<p>The King said no, and he was very sorry.</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Be good then,&rdquo; said the Fairy, &ldquo;and live happy ever afterwards.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>Then, Grandmarina waved her fan, and the Queen came in most splendidly
+dressed, and the seventeen young Princes and Princesses, no longer grown
+out of their clothes, came in newly fitted out from top to toe, with tucks
+in everything to admit of its being let out. After that, the Fairy tapped
+the Princess Alicia with her fan, and the smothering coarse apron flew
+away, and she appeared exquisitely dressed, like a little Bride, with
+a wreath of orange-flowers and a silver veil. After that, the kitchen
+dresser changed of itself into a wardrobe, made of beautiful woods
+<span class='pagenum'>[Pg 28]</span> and
+gold and looking glass, which was full of dresses of all sorts, all for
+her and all exactly fitting her. After that, the angelic baby came in,
+running alone, with his face and eye not a bit the worse but much the
+better. Then, Grandmarina begged to be introduced to the Duchess, and,
+when the Duchess was brought down many compliments passed between them.</p>
+
+<p>A little whispering took place between the Fairy and the Duchess, and
+then the Fairy said out loud, &ldquo;Yes. I thought she would have told you.&rdquo;
+Grandmarina then turned to the King and Queen, and said, &ldquo;We are going
+in search of Prince Certainpersonio. The pleasure of your company is
+requested at church in half an hour precisely.&rdquo; So she and the Princess
+Alicia got into the carriage, and Mr Pickles&#8217;s boy handed in the Duchess
+who sat by herself on the opposite seat, and then Mr Pickles&#8217;s boy put up
+the steps and got up behind, and the Peacocks flew away with their tails
+spread.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 415px;">
+<img src="images/img38.jpg" width="415" height="537" alt="Exquisitely dressed" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Prince Certainpersonio was sitting by himself, eating barley-sugar
+and waiting to be ninety. When<span class='pagenum'>[Pg 29]</span>
+he saw the Peacocks followed by the
+carriage, coming in at the window, it immediately occurred to him that
+something uncommon was going to happen.</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;Prince,&rdquo; said Grandmarina, &ldquo;I bring you your Bride.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>The moment the Fairy said those words, Prince Certainpersonio&#8217;s face left
+off being stickey, and his jacket and corduroys changed to peach-bloom
+velvet, and his hair curled, and a cap and feather flew in like a bird and
+settled on his head. He got into the carriage by the Fairy&#8217;s invitation,
+and there he renewed his acquaintance with the Duchess, whom he had seen
+before.</p>
+
+<p>In the church were the Prince&#8217;s relations and friends, and the Princess
+Alicia&#8217;s relations and friends, and the seventeen Princes and Princesses,
+and the baby, and a crowd of the neighbours. The marriage was beautiful
+beyond expression. The Duchess was bridesmaid, and beheld the ceremony
+from the pulpit where she was supported by the cushion of the desk.</p>
+
+<p>Grandmarina gave a magnificent wedding feast afterwards, in which there
+was everything and more<span class='pagenum'>[Pg 30]</span>
+to eat, and everything and more to drink. The
+wedding cake was delicately ornamented with white satin ribbons, frosted
+silver and white lilies, and was forty-two yards round.</p>
+
+<p>When Grandmarina had drunk her love to the young couple, and Prince
+Certainpersonio had made a speech, and everybody had cried Hip hip hip
+hurrah! Grandmarina announced to the King and Queen that in future there
+would be eight quarter days in every year, except in leap year, when there
+would be ten. She then turned to Certainpersonio and Alicia, and said, &ldquo;My
+dears, you will have thirty-five children, and they will all be good and
+beautiful. Seventeen of your children will be boys, and eighteen will be
+girls. The hair of the whole of your children will curl naturally. They
+will never have the measles, and will have recovered from the
+whooping-cough before being born.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p>On hearing such good news, everybody cried out &ldquo;Hip hip hip hurrah!&rdquo;
+again.</p>
+
+<p>&ldquo;It only remains,&rdquo; said Grandmarina in conclusion, &ldquo;to make an end of the
+fish-bone.&rdquo;</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'>[Pg 31]</span>
+So she took it from the hand of the Princess Alicia, and it instantly flew
+down the throat of the dreadful little snapping pug-dog next door and
+choked him, and he expired in convulsions.</p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center"><strong>THE END</strong></p>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 363px;">
+<img src="images/img42.jpg" width="363" height="344" alt="Illustration" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Magic Fishbone, by Charles Dickens,
+Illustrated by S. Beatrice Pearse
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+Title: The Magic Fishbone
+       A Holiday Romance from the Pen of Miss Alice Rainbird, Aged 7
+
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+Author: Charles Dickens
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+THE MAGIC FISHBONE
+
+by
+
+CHARLES DICKENS
+
+With Illustrations by S. Beatrice Pearse
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: The Queen came in most splendidly dressed p. 27]
+
+
+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
+L1,000.
+
+"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.
+
+
+                *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+[Illustration: 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.
+
+Let us now resume our story.
+
+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, Good-morning."
+
+The King went on towards the office in a melancholy mood, for quarter day
+was such a long way off, and several of the dear children were growing out
+of their clothes. He had not proceeded far, when Mr Pickles's errand-boy
+came running after him, and said, "Sir, you didn't notice the old lady in
+our shop."
+
+"What old lady?" enquired the King. "I saw none."
+
+Now, the King had not seen any old lady, because this old lady had been
+invisible to him, though visible to Mr Pickles's boy. Probably because he
+messed and splashed the water about to that degree, and flopped the pairs
+of soles down in that violent manner, that, if she had not been visible to
+him, he would have spoilt her clothes.
+
+Just then the old lady came trotting up. She was dressed in shot-silk of
+the richest quality, smelling of dried lavender.
+
+"King Watkins the First, I believe?" said the old lady.
+
+"Watkins," replied the King, "is my name."
+
+"Papa, if I am not mistaken, of the beautiful Princess Alicia?" said the
+old lady.
+
+"And of eighteen other darlings," replied the King.
+
+"Listen. You are going to the office," said the old lady.
+
+It instantly flashed upon the King that she must be a Fairy, or how could
+she know that?
+
+"You are right," said the old lady, answering his thoughts, "I am the Good
+Fairy Grandmarina. Attend. When you return home to dinner, politely invite
+the Princess Alicia to have some of the salmon you bought just now."
+
+"It may disagree with her," said the King.
+
+The old lady became so very angry at this absurd idea, that the King was
+quite alarmed, and humbly begged her pardon.
+
+"We hear a great deal too much about this thing disagreeing, and that
+thing disagreeing," said the old lady, with the greatest contempt it was
+possible to express. "Don't be greedy. I think you want it all yourself."
+
+The King hung his head under this reproof, and said he wouldn't talk about
+things disagreeing, any more.
+
+"Be good, then," said the Fairy Grandmarina, "and don't! When the
+beautiful Princess Alicia consents to partake of the salmon--as I think
+she will--you will find she will leave a fish-bone on her plate. Tell
+her to dry it, and to rub it, and to polish it till it shines like
+mother-of-pearl, and to take care of it as a present from me."
+
+"Is that all?" asked the King.
+
+"Don't be impatient, sir," returned the Fairy Grandmarina, scolding him
+severely. "Don't catch people short, before they have done speaking. Just
+the way with you grown-up persons. You are always doing it."
+
+The King again hung his head, and said he wouldn't do so any more.
+
+"Be good then," said the Fairy Grandmarina, "and don't! Tell the Princess
+Alicia, with my love, that the fish-bone is a magic present which can only
+be used once; but that it will bring her, that once, whatever she wishes
+for, PROVIDED SHE WISHES FOR IT AT THE RIGHT TIME. That is the
+message. Take care of it."
+
+[Illustration: HOITY TOITY ME!]
+
+The King was beginning, "Might I ask the reason--?" when the Fairy became
+absolutely furious.
+
+"_Will_ you be good, sir?" she exclaimed, stamping her foot on the ground.
+"The reason for this, and the reason for that, indeed! You are always
+wanting the reason. No reason. There! Hoity toity me! I am sick of your
+grown-up reasons."
+
+The King was extremely frightened by the old lady's flying into such a
+passion, and said he was very sorry to have offended her, and he wouldn't
+ask for reasons any more.
+
+"Be good then," said the old lady, "and don't!"
+
+With those words, Grandmarina vanished, and the King went on and on and
+on, till he came to the office. There he wrote and wrote and wrote, till
+it was time to go home again. Then he politely invited the Princess
+Alicia, as the Fairy had directed him, to partake of the salmon. And
+when she had enjoyed it very much, he saw the fish-bone on her plate, as
+the Fairy had told him he would, and he delivered the Fairy's message, and
+the Princess Alicia took care to dry the bone, and to rub it, and to
+polish it till it shone like mother-of-pearl.
+
+[Illustration: He saw the Fish-bone on her Plate]
+
+And so when the Queen was going to get up in the morning, she said, "O,
+dear me, dear me; my head, my head!" and then she fainted away.
+
+The Princess Alicia, who happened to be looking in at the chamber-door,
+asking about breakfast, was very much alarmed when she saw her Royal Mamma
+in this state, and she rang the bell for Peggy, which was the name of the
+Lord Chamberlain. But remembering where the smelling-bottle was, she
+climbed on a chair and got it, and after that she climbed on another chair
+by the bedside and held the smelling-bottle to the Queen's nose, and after
+that she jumped down and got some water, and after that she jumped up
+again and wetted the Queen's forehead, and, in short, when the Lord
+Chamberlain came in, that dear old woman said to the little Princess,
+"What a Trot you are! I couldn't have done it better myself!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But that was not the worst of the good Queen's illness. O, no! She was
+very ill indeed, for a long time. The Princess Alicia kept the seventeen
+young Princes and Princesses quiet, and dressed and undressed and danced
+the baby, and made the kettle boil, and heated the soup, and swept the
+hearth, and poured out the medicine, and nursed the Queen, and did all
+that ever she could, and was as busy busy busy, as busy could be. For
+there were not many servants at that Palace, for three reasons; because
+the King was short of money, because a rise in his office never seemed to
+come, and because quarter day was so far off that it looked almost as far
+off and as little as one of the stars.
+
+But on the morning when the Queen fainted away, where was the magic
+fish-bone? Why, there it was in the Princess Alicia's pocket. She had
+almost taken it out to bring the Queen to life again, when she put it
+back, and looked for the smelling-bottle.
+
+After the Queen had come out of her swoon that morning, and was dozing,
+the Princess Alicia hurried up-stairs to tell a most particular secret to
+a most particularly confidential friend of hers, who was a Duchess. People
+did suppose her to be a Doll; but she was really a Duchess, though nobody
+knew it except the Princess.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+This most particular secret was a secret about the magic fish-bone, the
+history of which was well known to the Duchess, because the Princess told
+her everything. The Princess kneeled down by the bed on which the Duchess
+was lying, full-dressed and wide awake, and whispered the secret to her.
+The Duchess smiled and nodded. People might have supposed that she never
+smiled and nodded, but she often did, though nobody knew it except the
+Princess.
+
+Then the Princess Alicia hurried downstairs again, to keep watch in the
+Queen's room. She often kept watch by herself in the Queen's room; but
+every evening, while the illness lasted, she sat there watching with the
+King. And every evening the King sat looking at her with a cross look,
+wondering why she never brought out the magic fish-bone. As often as she
+noticed this, she ran up-stairs, whispered the secret to the Duchess over
+again, and said to the Duchess besides, "They think we children never have
+a reason or a meaning!" And the Duchess, though the most fashionable
+Duchess that ever was heard of, winked her eye.
+
+"Alicia," said the King, one evening when she wished him Good Night.
+
+"Yes, Papa."
+
+"What is become of the magic fish-bone?"
+
+"In my pocket, Papa."
+
+"I thought you had lost it?"
+
+"O, no, Papa."
+
+"Or forgotten it?"
+
+"No, indeed, Papa."
+
+And so another time the dreadful little snapping pug-dog next door made a
+rush at one of the young Princes as he stood on the steps coming home from
+school, and terrified him out of his wits and he put his hand through a
+pane of glass, and bled bled bled. When the seventeen other young Princes
+and Princesses saw him bleed bleed bleed, they were terrified out of their
+wits too, and screamed themselves black in their seventeen faces all at
+once. But the Princess Alicia put her hands over all their seventeen
+mouths, one after another, and persuaded them to be quiet because of the
+sick Queen. And then she put the wounded Prince's hand in a basin of fresh
+cold water, while they stared with their twice seventeen are thirty-four
+put down four and carry three eyes, and then she looked in the hand for
+bits of glass, and there were fortunately no bits of glass there. And
+then she said to two chubby-legged Princes who were sturdy though small,
+"Bring me in the Royal rag-bag; I must snip and stitch and cut and
+contrive." So those two young Princes tugged at the Royal rag-bag and
+lugged it in, and the Princess Alicia sat down on the floor with a large
+pair of scissors and a needle and thread, and snipped and stitched and
+cut and contrived, and made a bandage and put it on, and it fitted
+beautifully, and so when it was all done she saw the King her Papa
+looking on by the door.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Alicia."
+
+"Yes, Papa."
+
+"What have you been doing?"
+
+"Snipping stitching cutting and contriving, Papa."
+
+"Where is the magic fish-bone?"
+
+"In my pocket, Papa."
+
+"I thought you had lost it?"
+
+"O, no, Papa."
+
+"Or forgotten it?"
+
+"No, indeed, Papa."
+
+After that, she ran up-stairs to the Duchess and told her what had passed,
+and told her the secret over again, and the Duchess shook her flaxen curls
+and laughed with her rosy lips.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Well! and so another time the baby fell under the grate. The seventeen
+young Princes and Princesses were used to it, for they were almost always
+falling under the grate or down the stairs, but the baby was not used to
+it yet, and it gave him a swelled face and a black eye. The way the poor
+little darling came to tumble was, that he slid out of the Princess
+Alicia's lap just as she was sitting in a great coarse apron that quite
+smothered her, in front of the kitchen-fire, beginning to peel the turnips
+for the broth for dinner; and the way she came to be doing that was, that
+the King's cook had run away that morning with her own true love who was a
+very tall but very tipsy soldier. Then, the seventeen young Princes and
+Princesses, who cried at everything that happened, cried and roared. But
+the Princess Alicia (who couldn't help crying a little herself) quietly
+called to them to be still, on account of not throwing back the Queen
+up-stairs, who was fast getting well, and said, "Hold your tongues, you
+wicked little monkeys, every one of you, while I examine baby!" Then she
+examined baby, and found that he hadn't broken anything, and she held
+cold iron to his poor dear eye, and smoothed his poor dear face, and he
+presently fell asleep in her arms. Then, she said to the seventeen Princes
+and Princesses, "I am afraid to lay him down yet, lest he should wake and
+feel pain, be good, and you shall all be cooks." They jumped for joy when
+they heard that, and began making themselves cooks' caps out of old
+newspapers. So to one she gave the salt-box, and to one she gave the
+barley, and to one she gave the herbs, and to one she gave the turnips,
+and to one she gave the carrots, and to one she gave the onions, and to
+one she gave the spice-box, till they were all cooks, and all running
+about at work, she sitting in the middle smothered in the great coarse
+apron, nursing baby. By and by the broth was done, and the baby woke up
+smiling like an angel, and was trusted to the sedatest Princess to hold,
+while the other Princes and Princesses were squeezed into a far-off corner
+to look at the Princess Alicia turning out the saucepan-full of broth,
+for fear (as they were always getting into trouble) they should get
+splashed and scalded. When the broth came tumbling out, steaming
+beautifully, and smelling like a nosegay good to eat, they clapped their
+hands. That made the baby clap his hands; and that, and his looking as if
+he had a comic toothache, made all the Princes and Princesses laugh. So
+the Princess Alicia said, "Laugh and be good, and after dinner we will
+make him a nest on the floor in a corner, and he shall sit in his nest
+and see a dance of eighteen cooks." That delighted the young Princes and
+Princesses, and they ate up all the broth, and washed up all the plates
+and dishes, and cleared away, and pushed the table into a corner, and
+then they in their cooks' caps, and the Princess Alicia in the smothering
+coarse apron that belonged to the cook that had run away with her own true
+love that was the very tall but very tipsy soldier, danced a dance of
+eighteen cooks before the angelic baby, who forgot his swelled face and
+his black eye, and crowed with joy.
+
+[Illustration: The Dance of the Eighteen Cooks]
+
+And so then, once more the Princess Alicia saw King Watkins the First,
+her father, standing in the doorway looking on, and he said: "What have
+you been doing, Alicia?"
+
+"Cooking and contriving, Papa."
+
+"What else have you been doing, Alicia?"
+
+"Keeping the children light-hearted, Papa."
+
+"Where is the magic fish-bone, Alicia?"
+
+"In my pocket, Papa."
+
+"I thought you had lost it?"
+
+"O, no, Papa."
+
+"Or forgotten it?"
+
+"No, indeed, Papa."
+
+The King then sighed so heavily, and seemed so low-spirited, and sat down
+so miserably, leaning his head upon his hand, and his elbow upon the
+kitchen table pushed away in the corner, that the seventeen Princes and
+Princesses crept softly out of the kitchen, and left him alone with the
+Princess Alicia and the angelic baby.
+
+"What is the matter, Papa?"
+
+"I am dreadfully poor, my child."
+
+"Have you no money at all, Papa?"
+
+[Illustration: "What is the matter, Papa?"]
+
+"None my child."
+
+"Is there no way left of getting any, Papa?"
+
+"No way," said the King. "I have tried very hard, and I have tried all
+ways."
+
+When she heard those last words, the Princess Alicia began to put her hand
+into the pocket where she kept the magic fish-bone.
+
+"Papa," said she, "when we have tried very hard, and tried all ways, we
+must have done our very very best?"
+
+"No doubt, Alicia."
+
+"When we have done our very very best, Papa, and that is not enough, then
+I think the right time must have come for asking help of others." This was
+the very secret connected with the magic fish-bone, which she had found
+out for herself from the good fairy Grandmarina's words, and which she had
+so often whispered to her beautiful and fashionable friend the Duchess.
+
+So she took out of her pocket the magic fish-bone that had been dried and
+rubbed and polished till it shone like mother-of-pearl; and she gave it
+one little kiss and wished it was quarter day. And immediately it _was_
+quarter day; and the King's quarter's salary came rattling down the
+chimney, and bounced into the middle of the floor.
+
+But this was not half of what happened, no not a quarter, for immediately
+afterwards the good fairy Grandmarina came riding in, in a carriage and
+four (Peacocks), with Mr Pickles's boy up behind, dressed in silver and
+gold, with a cocked hat, powdered hair, pink silk stockings, a jewelled
+cane, and a nosegay. Down jumped Mr Pickles's boy with his cocked hat in
+his hand and wonderfully polite (being entirely changed by enchantment),
+and handed Grandmarina out, and there she stood in her rich shot silk
+smelling of dried lavender, fanning herself with a sparkling fan.
+
+"Alicia, my dear," said this charming old Fairy, "how do you do, I hope I
+see you pretty well, give me a kiss."
+
+The Princess Alicia embraced her, and then Grandmarina turned to the King,
+and said rather sharply:--"Are you good?"
+
+[Illustration: "Alicia, my dear ... how do you do?"]
+
+The King said he hoped so.
+
+"I suppose you know the reason, _now_, why my god-Daughter here," kissing
+the Princess again, "did not apply to the fish-bone sooner?" said the
+Fairy.
+
+The King made her a shy bow.
+
+"Ah! but you didn't _then_!" said the Fairy.
+
+The King made her a shyer bow.
+
+"Any more reasons to ask for?" said the Fairy.
+
+The King said no, and he was very sorry.
+
+"Be good then," said the Fairy, "and live happy ever afterwards."
+
+Then, Grandmarina waved her fan, and the Queen came in most splendidly
+dressed, and the seventeen young Princes and Princesses, no longer grown
+out of their clothes, came in newly fitted out from top to toe, with tucks
+in everything to admit of its being let out. After that, the Fairy tapped
+the Princess Alicia with her fan, and the smothering coarse apron flew
+away, and she appeared exquisitely dressed, like a little Bride, with
+a wreath of orange-flowers and a silver veil. After that, the kitchen
+dresser changed of itself into a wardrobe, made of beautiful woods and
+gold and looking glass, which was full of dresses of all sorts, all for
+her and all exactly fitting her. After that, the angelic baby came in,
+running alone, with his face and eye not a bit the worse but much the
+better. Then, Grandmarina begged to be introduced to the Duchess, and,
+when the Duchess was brought down many compliments passed between them.
+
+A little whispering took place between the Fairy and the Duchess, and
+then the Fairy said out loud, "Yes. I thought she would have told you."
+Grandmarina then turned to the King and Queen, and said, "We are going
+in search of Prince Certainpersonio. The pleasure of your company is
+requested at church in half an hour precisely." So she and the Princess
+Alicia got into the carriage, and Mr Pickles's boy handed in the Duchess
+who sat by herself on the opposite seat, and then Mr Pickles's boy put up
+the steps and got up behind, and the Peacocks flew away with their tails
+spread.
+
+[Illustration: She appeared exquisitely dressed, like a little Bride]
+
+Prince Certainpersonio was sitting by himself, eating barley-sugar
+and waiting to be ninety. When he saw the Peacocks followed by the
+carriage, coming in at the window, it immediately occurred to him that
+something uncommon was going to happen.
+
+"Prince," said Grandmarina, "I bring you your Bride."
+
+The moment the Fairy said those words, Prince Certainpersonio's face left
+off being stickey, and his jacket and corduroys changed to peach-bloom
+velvet, and his hair curled, and a cap and feather flew in like a bird and
+settled on his head. He got into the carriage by the Fairy's invitation,
+and there he renewed his acquaintance with the Duchess, whom he had seen
+before.
+
+In the church were the Prince's relations and friends, and the Princess
+Alicia's relations and friends, and the seventeen Princes and Princesses,
+and the baby, and a crowd of the neighbours. The marriage was beautiful
+beyond expression. The Duchess was bridesmaid, and beheld the ceremony
+from the pulpit where she was supported by the cushion of the desk.
+
+Grandmarina gave a magnificent wedding feast afterwards, in which there
+was everything and more to eat, and everything and more to drink. The
+wedding cake was delicately ornamented with white satin ribbons, frosted
+silver and white lilies, and was forty-two yards round.
+
+When Grandmarina had drunk her love to the young couple, and Prince
+Certainpersonio had made a speech, and everybody had cried Hip hip hip
+hurrah! Grandmarina announced to the King and Queen that in future there
+would be eight quarter days in every year, except in leap year, when there
+would be ten. She then turned to Certainpersonio and Alicia, and said, "My
+dears, you will have thirty-five children, and they will all be good and
+beautiful. Seventeen of your children will be boys, and eighteen will be
+girls. The hair of the whole of your children will curl naturally. They
+will never have the measles, and will have recovered from the
+whooping-cough before being born."
+
+On hearing such good news, everybody cried out "Hip hip hip hurrah!"
+again.
+
+"It only remains," said Grandmarina in conclusion, "to make an end of the
+fish-bone."
+
+So she took it from the hand of the Princess Alicia, and it instantly flew
+down the throat of the dreadful little snapping pug-dog next door and
+choked him, and he expired in convulsions.
+
+
+THE END
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+                *       *       *       *       *
+
+
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