It was the evening before Christmas. Great big snowflakes were falling, carpeting the pavements. A little girl, bare-headed and barefoot, was out walking in the cold.
Her mother had given her shoes – but they’d been too big for her and she’d lost them crossing the street.
Then a boy had run off with them… Her feet ached with the cold and her hands were all red and numb. But the poor little girl didn’t dare go home.