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 l
them when she was running across the street when two carriages(四轮马车) were p
by 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 g
her even a penny.
Poor little girl, shaking with cold and hunger, she walked slowly, q and carefully along , a perfect picture of great unhappiness.