ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES - 15

by Hans Christian Andersen in English Children Stories

15 THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL 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, ...Read Morewith 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 Read Less