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Barefoot
Descalzo
Slipper
Zapatilla
Match
Fósforo
Carriages
carruajes
Prunes
ciruelas pasas

The Little Match Girl

On a cold New Year's Eve

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Intermediate
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The Little Match Girl

On a cold New Year's Eve

Intermediate
Read and listen to this story in Beelinguapp!

It was so terribly cold. Snow was falling, and it was almost dark. Evening came on, the last evening of the year. In the cold and gloom a poor little girl, bareheaded and barefoot, was walking through the streets. Of course when she had left her house she'd had slippers on, but what good had they been? They were very big slippers, way too big for her, for they belonged to her mother. The little girl had lost them running across the road, where two carriages had rattled by terribly fast. One slipper she'd not been able to find again, and a boy had run off with the other, saying he could use it very well as a cradle some day when he had children of his own.

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