The Little Match Girls

Most terribly cold it was it snowed, and was nearly quite dark and evening

Most terribly cold it was it snowed, and was nearly quite dark and evening the last evening of the year. In this cold and darkness there went along the street a poor little girl, bareheaded and with naked feet. When she left home she had slippers on, it is true but what was the good of that? They were very large slippers, which her mother had hitherto worn so large were they and the poor little thing lost them as she scuffled away across the street because of two carriages that rolled by dreadfully fast.

One slipper was nowhere to be found the other had been laid hold of by an urchin and off he ran with it he thought it would do capitally for a cradle when he some day or other should have children himself. So the little maiden walked on with her tiny naked feet that were quite red and blue from cold. She carried a quantity of matches in an old apron and she held a bundle of them in her hand. Nobody had bought anything of her the whole livelong day no one had given her a single farthing.

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