THE RED SHOES.
BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, TRANSLATED BY MARY HOWITT.
CHAPTER FIRST.
HOW LITTLE KAREN WAS ADOPTED BY A LADY, AND HOW SHE CAME BY HER RED SHOES.
here was once a little girl who was very pretty and delicate, but in the summer she was obliged to run about with bare feet, she was so poor, and in the winter to wear large wooden shoes, which made her little instep quite red, and that looked so dangerous!