![]() ![]() ![]() Now the queen once travelled through the land, and she had her little daughter with her. But Karen herself was cleanly and nicely dressed she must learn to read and sew and people said she was a nice little thing, but the looking-glass said: "Thou art more than nice, thou art beautiful!" ![]() I will adopt her!"Īnd Karen believed all this happened on account of the red shoes, but the old lady thought they were horrible, and they were burnt. ![]() Suddenly a large old carriage drove up, and a large old lady sat in it: she looked at the little girl, felt compassion for her, and then said to the clergyman: They were certainly not intended for mourning, but she had no others, and with stockingless feet she followed the poor straw coffin in them. On the very day her mother was buried, Karen received the red shoes, and wore them for the first time. In the middle of the village lived old Dame Shoemaker she sat and sewed together, as well as she could, a little pair of shoes out of old red strips of cloth they were very clumsy, but it was a kind thought. There was once a little girl who was very pretty and delicate, but in summer she was forced to run about with bare feet, she was so poor, and in winter wear very large wooden shoes, which made her little insteps quite red, and that looked so dangerous! ![]()
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