The Little Match Girl - A Christmas story

It was the evening before Christmas.

Great big snowflakes were falling, carpeting the pavements.

A little girl, bare-headed and barefoot, was out walking in the cold.

Her mother had given her shoes – but they’d been too big for her and she’d lost them crossing the street.

Then a boy had run off with them...

Her feet ached with the cold and her hands were all red and numb.

But the poor little girl didn’t dare go home.