ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES - 18 - LAST PART

by Hans Christian Andersen in English Children Stories

18 THE RED SHOES There was once a little girl who was very pretty and delicate, but in summer she was forced to run about with bare feet, she was so poor, and in winter wear very large wooden ...Read Morewhich made her little insteps quite red, and that looked so dangerous! In the middle of the village lived old Dame Shoemaker; she sat and sewed together, as well as she could, a little pair of shoes out of old red strips of cloth; they were very clumsy, but it was a kind thought. They were meant for the little Read Less