![]() 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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