The Red Shoes (2)

The Red Shoes (2)

  Now on that very day that her mother was to be buried, Karen was given the red shoes. 

  Though they weren't the proper colour for mourning, she had no others, so she put them on.
  Raggedly dressed, barelegged, with red shoes on her feet, she walked behind the pauper's coffin.

  A big old-fashioned carriage drove by ; in it sat an old lady.
  She noticed the little girl and felt so sorry for her that she went at once to the minister and spoke to him.
  " Let me have that little girl, and I shall be good to her and being her up. "

  Karen thought it was because of her new rd shoes that the old lady had taken a fancy to her.
  But old lady declared that the shoes looked frighten and had them thrown into the stove and burned.

  Karen was dressed in nice and clean clothes and taught to rad and to sew.

  Everyone agreed that she was a very pretty child ; but the mirror said, " You are more than pretty, you are beautiful. "

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