Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875 · London : G. Bell · leaf 381
our, crouching in the corner ofthe wall, the poor little girl was found—her cheeks glowing,her lips smiling — frozen to death on the last night of theOld Year. The New Years sun shone on the lifeless child;motionless she sat there with the matches in her lap, onebundle of them quite burnt out. She… … THE NEIGHBOURS. ANY one might have supposed that something very extra-ordinary had happened in the duck-pond, there wassuch a commotion. All the ducks—some swimming, somestanding in the pond with their heads downwards—suddenlyjumped on land, leaving the traces of their feet in the wetclay, and…
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