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diff --git a/23344.txt b/23344.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..216e0d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/23344.txt @@ -0,0 +1,939 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Magic Fishbone, by Charles Dickens, +Illustrated by S. Beatrice Pearse + + +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 www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +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 + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MAGIC FISHBONE*** + + +E-text prepared by Anne Storer and the Project Gutenberg Online +Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) from digital material +generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries +(http://www.archive.org/details/americana) + + + +Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this + file which includes the original illustrations. + See 23344-h.htm or 23344-h.zip: + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/3/3/4/23344/23344-h/23344-h.htm) + or + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/3/3/4/23344/23344-h.zip) + + + Images of the original pages are available through + Internet Archive/American Libraries. See + http://www.archive.org/details/magicfishbonehol00dick + + + + + +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] + + + * * * * * + + +PRINTED AT THE ARDEN PRESS, LETCHWORTH, ENGLAND. + +FIRST IMPRESSION, TWELVE THOUSAND COPIES, SEPT. MCMXI: +SECOND IMPRESSION, TWELVE THOUSAND COPIES, DEC. 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