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It's freezing, snowing and getting dark. This is the last day of the year. New Year's Eve. On this cold and dark night, a cute little girl was walking barefoot in the street. She came out of the house wearing a pair of slippers, but what's the use? It was a big pair of slippers so big that her mother always wore them. As she crossed the road, Two carriages came running so fast that she ran away with her shoes. One couldn't find anything. The other asked a boy to pick it up and run away. He said that he could use it as a cradle when he had Children in the future, the little girl had to walk barefoot. Her feet were red and blue, with cold in our old apron. She carried many matches and a handful. No one had bought her a match or given her queen all day. Poor little girl. She trembled forward, cold and hungry. Snowflakes fell on her long golden hair, which rolled over her shoulders and looked beautiful. But she didn't notice. Lights were shining through every window, and there was a roast goose smell in the street because it was New Year's Eve, which she cannot forget. She sat down in the corner of a house and huddled her legs. She felt colder. She dared not go home because she didn't sell a match and earned any money. Dad would beat her. Besides the houses as cold is the street, there was only a roof over their heads, and although the biggest crack have been blocked with grass and rags, the wind could still fill in.