Into the Christmas Eve of the new year a small, poorly dressed, barefooted girl went along streets. When she went out, admittedly
she was in shoes but they were too big and they fell for it from feet when flashed in the roadway. A gamin grabbed one shoe (rascal), so from second didn't have pożydku. Therefore wandered barefooted carrying groups of matches in the apron.She kept one of such bundles in the handle. She was hungry, frozen and scared. She didn't manage to sell not even of one match and she was afraid to get back home because the father would break it.As a matter of fact a cold was also at home because they lived in the attic and she didn't get in order to nothing to the food. A sharp frost seized her to the bone, snow and ice chilled feet.She found the sheltered place for herself in the corner between houses and there she sat down. She switched one match on, in order to oneself troche to heat up. He turned up at her
glitter, iron, bursting with warmth stove. A little flame went out and the vision disappeared. She rubbed against the wall next match.Now she saw the table nice covered with a tablecloth for whites before herself and with china. In the middle of the table a roasted goose stuffed with apples and plums lay on the platter. Both here the bird jumped down from the platter and he started crawling in the direction of the girl.The match went out. He triggered the third little flame from huge, beautiful darkness of insults choinkiz with innumerable number of candles, but also lasted for only a moment. The girl noticed the falling star. - 'somebody is dying' - she thought because this way a
grandmother told it.She reminded herself her - only being which was for it dobra.W of glitter of the next match a grandmother turned up. Child, frightened will disappear, the same as previous images, she lighted the entire bundle but the grandmother didn't disappear.A girl was overcome with her on the hand, she hugged and she raised with herself to the sky. Of next day passers-by felt sorry for the frozen body of the small, fair-haired girl.