"Now someone will pass away." the little girl says. She still remembers what her grandma said when she was alive. She said:"A soul will go to the heaven when a star falls down from the sky!"

　　...

　　小姑娘又擦亮一根火柴，它把四周都照亮了。光亮中，老祖母出现了。她是那么和蔼，那么慈祥。

　　...(这一段只有中文，没有英语原文)

　　"Grandma!" the little girl says, "Please take me away. In a world, you are the only one who took good care of me. I know, you will disappear if the match goes out, just like the missing warm stove, fragrantly roasted goose and nice Christmas tree."

　　She wants to stay with grandma and then she strikes the last matches which give off a blazing light. In the light, the grandma looks so loving and kind. She smiles at her and hugs hes and takes her away. They fly higher and higher to the place where there is no cold or hunger.

　　In the morning of the New Year, the girl with red cheeks smiles, sitting in the corner of the wall, but she is dead.

　　...

　　在圣诞的晚上冻死了。

　　...

　　The sun rises and shines on her little body. She is sitting there with some half-burnt matches. The people

　　stand around her and say: "How she wanted to be warmed!" But no one knows that she has seen such beautiful things. But she is happy in heaven with her grandma in the blessing of the New Year.