Exclusive【Bedtime Stories for Kids】The Little Match Girl

It was dreadfully cold; it was snowing fast, and was almost dark, as evening came on—the last evening of the year.
In the cold and the 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 they were much too large for her feet, slippers that her mother had used until then, and the poor little girl lost them in running across the street when two carriages were passing terribly fast.
When she looked for them, one was not to be found, and a boy seized the other and ran away with it, saying he would use it for a cradle some day, when he had children of his own.
So on the little girl went with her bare feet, that were red and blue with cold.
In an old apron that she wore were bundles of matches, and she carried a bundle also in her hand. No one had bought so much as a bunch all the long day, and no one had given her even a penny. Poor little girl!
Shivering with cold and hunger she crept along, a perfect picture of misery!
The snowflakes fell on her long flaxen hair, which hung in pretty curls about her throat; but she thought not of her beauty nor of the cold.
Lights gleamed in every window, and there came to her the savory smell of roast goose, for it was New Year's Eve.
And it was of this which she thought. In a corner formed by two houses, one of which projected beyond the other, she sat cowering down.
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