From "The Magic Fish-bone: a Holiday Romance from the pen of Miss Alice Rainbird, aged 7," by Charles Dickens
"After the queen had come out of her swoon that morning, and was dozing, the Princess Alicia hurried upstairs to tell a most particular secret to a most particular 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.
"This most particular secret was the 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."
"This most particular secret was the 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."
posted by melilotnfosco | 9:40 PM
4 Comments:
i most particularly like that story. where did you find it?
at age 7 (or almost), miss scout was writing about sounds one might hear at the pond.
i was looking for a classic to read, so i looked up books by thackeray on the library website and stumbled across ''the rose and the ring' and 'the magic fish-bone'' by thackeray and dickens, respectively. and so, since one of the characters in 'the rose and the ring' is named bulbo, i decided to check it out. the first one is around 160 pages, and the second about 15. they're both very cute.
i'm tired. i read that as "the nose and the ring", and i wondered why he would write about noserings.
That was wonderful! I'm going to have to read that!
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