![]() ![]() ![]() The queen once travelled through the land, with her little daughter, who was a princess. But the looking-glass said: “You are more than pretty-you are beautiful!” Karen then was dressed in clean and tidy clothes, and was taught to read and to sew, and people said she was pretty. There happened to pass by a large, old-fashioned carriage, in which sat an old lady, who took compassion on the little girl, and said to the preacher: “Pray, give me that little girl, and I will adopt her.”Īnd Karen fancied that all this was owing to the red shoes but the old lady thought them abominable, and ordered them to be burnt. They were not fit for mourning, it is true, but having no others, she put them on to her bare feet, and followed the pauper’s coffin to its last resting-place. She received the red shoes, and put them on, for the first time, on the very day her mother was buried. In the village lived an old shoemaker’s wife, who fashioned a little pair of shoes as well as she could out of some old strips of red cloth they were rather clumsy, but the intention was kind, for they were to give to the little girl, whose name was Karen. HERE was once a little girl who was delicately pretty, but who was obliged to walk about with bare feet in summer (for she was poor), and to wear coarse wooden shoes in winter, so that her little insteps were red all over. ![]()
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