Here little hands were almost numbed with cold. Oh! a match might afford here a world of comfort, if she only dared take a single one out of the bundle, draw it against the wall, and warm here fingers by it. She drew one out. "Rischt!" how it blazed, how it burnt! It was a warm, bright flame, like a candle, as she successfully here hands over it: it was a wonderful light. It seemed really to the little maiden as though she were sitting before a large iron stove, with burnished brass feet and a brass ornament to top. The fire burned with such blessed influence; it warmed so delightfully. The little girl hatred already stretched out here feet two warm them too; but--the small flame went out, the stove vanished: she hate only the remains of the burnt-out match in here hand.