THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL-Andersen’s Fairy Tales Tương tự truyện cổ Grim, truyển cổ Andersen cũng là 1 trong những tác phẩm nổi tiếng thế giới . đây là bản tiếng anh cảu bộ truyện này. | THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL Most terribly cold it was it snowed and was nearly quite dark and evening the last evening of the year. In this cold and 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 what was the good of that They were very large slippers which her mother had hitherto worn so large were they and the poor little thing lost them as she scuffled away across the street because of two carriages that rolled by dreadfully fast. One slipper was nowhere to be found the other had been laid hold of by an urchin and off he ran with it he thought it would do capitally for a cradle when he some day or other should have children himself. So the little maiden walked on with her tiny naked feet that were quite red and blue from cold. She carried a quantity of matches in an old apron and she held a bundle of them in her hand. Nobody had bought anything of her the whole livelong day no one had given her a single farthing. She crept along trembling with cold and hunger a very picture of sorrow the poor little thing The flakes of snow covered her long fair hair which fell in beautiful curls around her neck but of that of course she never once now thought. From all the windows the candles were gleaming and it smelt so deliciously of roast goose for you know it was New Year s Eve yes of that she thought. In a corner formed by two houses of which one advanced more than the other she seated herself down and cowered together. Her little feet she had drawn close up to her but she grew colder and colder and to go home she did not venture for she had not sold any matches and could not bring a farthing of money from her father she would certainly get blows and at home it was cold too for above her she had only the roof through which the wind whistled even though the largest cracks were stopped up with straw and rags. Her little hands were almost numbed with cold. Oh a match might afford her a .
