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Scene 1 · Intermediate
En barfota flicka i snön
A barefoot girl in the snow
Swedish
Snön föll tätt den sista kvällen på året. Det var bitande kallt och nästan mörkt. Längs gatorna gick en liten flicka, barhuvad och barfota. När hon gick hemifrån hade hon haft sin mammas tofflor på sig, men de var alldeles för stora.
English translation
Snow was falling heavily on the last evening of the year. It was bitterly cold and almost dark. A little girl walked along the streets, bareheaded and barefoot. She had been wearing her mother’s slippers when she left home, but they were much too big.
Swedish
Hon tappade båda när hon sprang över gatan för att komma undan två vagnar som kom i full fart.
English translation
She lost both of them as she ran across the street to get out of the way of two carriages coming at full speed.
Swedish
Den ena toffeln kunde hon inte hitta. Den andra tog en pojke och sprang iväg med. Han sa att den var så stor att han kunde använda den som vagga när han fick egna barn.
English translation
She could not find one of the slippers. A boy took the other and ran away with it. He said it was so big that he could use it as a cradle when he had children of his own.
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