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007 - The Little Match Girl - Danish · Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 05

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  Speaker 1: The Little match Girl by E. Louise Smith. This is
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  Speaker 1: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: The Little match Girl. It was very cold. The snow fell,
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  Speaker 1: and it was almost dark. It was the last day
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  Speaker 1: of the year. A little match girl was running in
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  Speaker 1: the street. Her name was Gretchen. She had no hat on.
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  Speaker 1: Her feet were bare when she left home. She had
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  Speaker 1: on some big slippers of her mamma's, but they were
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  Speaker 1: so large that she lost them when she ran across
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  Speaker 1: the street. Gretchen had a lot of matches in her
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  Speaker 1: old apron. She had a little bunch in her hand,
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  Speaker 1: but she could not sell her matches. No one would
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  Speaker 1: buy them. Poor little Gretchen. She was cold and hungry.
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  Speaker 1: The snow fell on her curly hair, but she did
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  Speaker 1: not think about that. She saw lights in the houses.
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  Speaker 1: She smelled good things cooking. She said to herself, this
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  Speaker 1: is the last night of the year. Gretchen got colder
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  Speaker 1: and colder. She was afraid to go home. She knew
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  Speaker 1: her Papa would whip her if she did not take
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  Speaker 1: some money to him. It was as cold at home
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  Speaker 1: as in the street. They were too poor to have
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  Speaker 1: a fire. They had to put rags in the windows
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  Speaker 1: to keep out the wind. Gretchen did not even have
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  Speaker 1: a bed. She had to sleep on a pile of rags.
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  Speaker 1: She sat down on a doorstep. Her little hands were
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  Speaker 1: almost frozen. She took a match and lighted it to
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  Speaker 1: warm her hands. The match looked like a little candle.
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  Speaker 1: Gretchen thought she was sitting by a big stove. It
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  Speaker 1: was so bright. She put the match near her feet
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  Speaker 1: to warm them. Then the light went out. She did
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  Speaker 1: not think that she was by the stove any mme.
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  Speaker 1: Gretchen lighted another match. Now she thought she could look
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  Speaker 1: into a room. In this room was a table, a
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  Speaker 1: white cloth and pretty dishes were on the table. There
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  Speaker 1: was a roast turkey too. It was cooked and ready
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  Speaker 1: to eat. The knife and fork were in his back.
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  Speaker 1: The turkey jumped from the dish and ran to the
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  Speaker 1: little girl. The light went out and she was in
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  Speaker 1: the cold and dark again. Gretchen lighted another match. Then
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  Speaker 1: she thought she was sitting by a Christmas tree. Very
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  Speaker 1: many candles were on the tree. It was full of
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  Speaker 1: pretty things. Gretchen put up her little hands. The light
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  Speaker 1: went out. The lights on the Christmas tree went up
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  Speaker 1: up until she saw they were the stars. Then she
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  Speaker 1: saw a starfall. Someone is dying, said the little Gretchen.
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  Speaker 1: Her grandma had been very good to the little girl,
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  Speaker 1: but she was dead. The grandma had said, when a
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  Speaker 1: star falls, someone is going to God. The little girl
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  Speaker 1: lighted another match and made a big light. Gretchen thought
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  Speaker 1: she saw her grandma. She never looked so pretty before,
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  Speaker 1: she looked so sweet and happy. Oh, Grandma said the
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  Speaker 1: little girl, take me. When the light goes out, you
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  Speaker 1: will go away. The stove and the turkey and the
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  Speaker 1: Christmas tree all went away. Then Gretchen lighted a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of matches. She wanted to keep her grandma with her.
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  Speaker 1: The matches made it very light. The grandma took the
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  Speaker 1: little girl in her arms. They went up up where
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  Speaker 1: they would never be cold or hungry. They were with God.
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  Speaker 1: The next day came, some men found a little girl
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  Speaker 1: in the street. She was dead. In her hands were
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  Speaker 1: the burned matches. They said, poor little thing. She froze
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  Speaker 1: to death. They did not know how happy she was
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  Speaker 1: in heaven. End of the Little match Girl by louise
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  Speaker 1: E Smith recorded by Michele Lee,