It was very cold. It was snowing fast and almost dark; the evening—the last evening of the old year was drawing in. In the cold and darkness there went along the street a poor little girl, wa cap and shoes. When she l her home she had shoes on . H, they were much too large for her f ---shoes that her mother had used till then and the poor little girl lthem when she was running across the street when two carriages(四轮马车) were pby terribly fast. When she looked for them, one was not to be found, and a boy hid the o and ran away with it, saying he would use it as a house for his mouse.
In the old c that she wore were boxes of matches, and she carried a box also in her hand. No one had bought so much as a box all the long day, and no one had gher even a penny.
Poor little girl, shaking with cold and hunger, she walked slowly, q  and carefully along , a perfect picture of great unhappiness.