A MAGICAL TALE from the pen of Miss Alice Rainbird, who turned seven

... Once upon a time there lived a king and a queen, and the king was the most heroic of all men, and the queen was the most beautiful of women. The king earned money by serving on the board. And the queen was from the village, her father was a village doctor...

Dickens, The Magic Fish-Bone, (ss) Our Young Folks, Jan-May 1868 Translator: Shcherbakov A. Illustrator: Yasinsky G. Previously published in magazine "Pioneer" 1970 - No. 6, p. 44–48, translated by N. Demurova under the title “The Magic Bone (A Novel Written During the Vacations).”