The Little Match Girl (ILLUSTRATED EDITION‪)‬

“The Little Match Girl” is a short story by Danish Poet and Author Hans Christian Andersen. Was first published December 1845.
    “It was late on a bitterly cold New Year's Eve. The snow was falling. A poor little girl was wandering in the dark cold streets; she was bareheaded and barefoot. She had of course had slippers on when she left home, but they were not much good, for they were so huge. They had last been worn by her mother, and they fell off the poor little girl's feet when she was running across the street to avoid two carriages that were rolling rapidly by. One of the shoes could not be found at all, and the other was picked up by a boy who ran off with it, saying that it would do for a cradle when he had children of his own.

    So the poor little girl had to walk on with her little bare feet, which were red and blue with cold. (…)”