口語(yǔ)演講稿

口語(yǔ)演講稿（精選14篇）

1.　口語(yǔ)演講稿 篇一

　　mother was playing with her lovely daughter about 3 years old on the playground. The little girl was interested in playing the swing but didn’t dare to try. The mother encouraged her by saying, “Come on, baby! I believe you can do it! Believe in yourself!” With her mother’s encouragement, the girl finally climbed onto the swing. “Yeah! I can do it! Mum, help me fly higher!” she cried happily, and her laughter filled the air. I see that self-confidence is a key factor in problem-solving. With self-confidence, I can overcome difficulties. With self-confidence, I can surpass limits. With self-confidence, I can go beyond myself.

　　Here, ladies and gentle, allow me to share with you my experience. I love English and now, I can stand on this stage to express my ideas in English. But when I first entered into the college, I was such a shy boy that I couldn’t speak Chinese fluently in the crowd, let alone show my English in public. In the second school year, I was assigned to be one of the hosts at an English Competition. I had no experience in hosting at that time so it was really a challenge to me. I didn’t know what to say, and even how to step on the stage? However, I decided to take the assignment since after 2-year of English study, I became more confident in myself. Also, teachers’ remarks encouraged me, “If you are not self-confident, it is impossible to make others believe in you. If you cannot go beyond your limits, it is impossible to make any improvement.” I accomplished the task at last, and the success confirms to myself that I can go beyond my limits. I can surpass myself. Yes, I can.

　　With self-confidence, one is not sure to win, but without self-confidence, one will lose for sure. Today, Standing here, participating in this competition, for me it is also a challenge. Am I sure to win the first prize? To tell the truth, not really. Then, am I confident to compete with the other participants? Absolutely. I believe in myself. I believe I will try my best to overcome all difficulties. I am well-ready to face the challenge. I am quite self-confident that I can again go beyond myself.

2.　口語(yǔ)演講稿 篇二

　　Good afternoon everyone:

　　Talking about integrity, some people may tkink that there is even no integrity on the officialdom in our countary. Is that true?

　　Turn on the TV the important new may the senior officials corruptioned the amazing number of money or have a lot of houses and some even have one or more mistresses. Often when I see it I fell diappointed. Where is “To serve the people”? Where is “The servants of the people”? Where is “Construction of integrity”? And “Where is the harmonious society”? No one give me an answer. So I disappointed so I keep silence.

　　What cause it? The system in China? May be it’s the reason on the one hand. If there is a crue system in China forexample find the officials corruption then give the death penalty with no mercy. I think it will be less and less corruptiones.

　　But the most reason I think is the greedy heart in the people.Think back new China early the heart of the people is integrity very much. The officials think about is the countary is the people. And even no one think about is the oneself profit. People live happy and don’t worry about somethings even they are poor.

　　I have a dream the officials in China can serve the people really don’t for themselves profit.

　　I have a dream if people have something to save they will seek help for gorventment but not use money.

　　I have a dream the officials can put the integrity in there heart but not the speech.

　　And I have a dream our countary will be more and more beautiful. Tkink you!

3.　口語(yǔ)演講稿 篇三

　　During his presidency, bill clinton seized important opportunities on issues from welfare to free trade. He was a tireless champion of peace in the middle east. he used american power in the balkans to confront aggression and halt ethnic cleansing. And in all his actions and decisions, the american people sensed a deep empathy for the poor and the powerless. Shortly before leaving office, president clinton said, "christ admonished us that our lives will be judged by how we do unto the least of our neighbors." Throughout his career, bill clinton has done his best to live up to that standard. And americans respect him for it. at every stage of his remarkable life, president clinton has made and kept countless friends, who share in the joy of this day. and three people in particular have the largest part in this remarkable story. one day more than 30 years ago, inside the yale law library, a fellow student walked over to bill clinton and said, "If you're going to keep staring at me, and i'm going to keep staring back, we ought to at least know each other's name. Mine's hillary rodham. what is yours?"that was a good day for both of them, and the beginning of a partnership unique in american history. So today, we honor the former first lady of arkansas, the former first lady of america, the united states senator from new york, senator hillary rodham clinton.

　　Perhaps the clintons' greatest achievement is their daughter, who moved into the white house as a young girl, and left as an accomplished young lady. It's not easy to be a teenager in the white house, but it's a lot easier when you have a loving mother and a loving father that chelsea clinton had.

4.　口語(yǔ)演講稿 篇四

　　Good morning!

　　Greeting the cool morning breeze, soaking with warm sunshine, in this bright, warm and mature in August, we brought glory and dream, with pride and gratification, students studying together in the Holy Land, the cradle of the pillars of growth - - Experimental junior Sheyang County, where our new life began sailing.

　　Autumn is a fruitful season, we will gain fruitful results here; autumn is a season of planting, we are here to sow new hope. In such a beautiful season, we are very honored to be a junior training camp experiment Sheyang County soldiers. First of all, allow me on behalf of all trained soldiers, to spend a week with our military training about time for us to pay a hard training instructors have my highest respect and heartfelt thanks!

　　We bring excitement, with pride, with schools, teachers and parents the expectations of even more beautiful with our ideal vision and desire, to our dream of experimental junior high school. During these three years, we need to have a healthy body, good quality and overcome the psychological difficulties of courage and determination. The school organized military training for our activities, not only to improve our constitution, is to cultivate our indomitable will, indomitable spirit, broad mind love, hard style. The excellent quality of life in our three years of junior high school and even their lives will have a positive impact.

　　Rapid development of modern society, competition and challenges are not far away from us, strengthen national defense awareneof national defense, enhance sense of historical responsibility and mission, is our contemporary students must take every sacred duty.

　　Military training in order to make this work a success, we pledge:

　　1, obey the orders and commands

　　Obey orders, a soldier's duty, in military training in, no matter how hard or tired, whether wind or rain, we will never retreat, every action to the command.

　　2, study hard, honing their determination

　　Military time is short, but the style of the military, the military's will and character of the military is we will never be finished, and we will treasure the precious time of the week, with an open mind to learn the instructors, Basic Training, honing their will shape their own good character, for future study and life lay a solid ideological foundation.

　　3, transmission and spread of consolidating the results of

　　We believe that the military training will live in our lives left an indelible memories linger. We will learn the military training to good thinking, good style, and continue to promote the heritage, throughout our entire life.

　　Students, military training is honing the will of the melting pot, is a challenging training grounds, let us work together. Teachers, instructors, and please believe, we must Go!

　　My speech is over, thank you.

5.　口語(yǔ)演講稿 篇五

　　Please Protect Our Home-Earth

　　It is known to us all that our planet is facing very serious environmental issues,such as global warming,ozone layer destruction,acid rain,shortage of resources and so forth.We should do something for our offsprings as well.So it is our responsibility to protect our home Earth.We should do anthing we can to increase resource utilization rate and econimize on natural resources.Meanwhile,we are supposed to endeavour to decrease carbon dioxide emission.We know our country have an enormous population and small quantities of natrual resources.So we are taking eminently heavy burdens.We should call on other countries especially developed countries to participate in this.Together,I believe we can improve our environment and save our planet and eventually make the Earth more beautiful.

6.　口語(yǔ)演講稿 篇六

　　In addition to other life choices, and many give up. but a lot of life to give up in order to better choices. you this time, the face of the university are beckoning to you, you can choose not to give up. can also say: you give up a lot ……

　　Life is not long, but many times choose, you have many choices come through today. e parents and relatives also lack guidance capability; second is the choice of policy, a more equitable, they may have money, but you also can not score enough money to help you. so many choices in this and future autonomy of the major is in your oote the development of the existing productive forces, not to complain about noplain about the objective conditions than me. in addition to other life choices, and many give up. but a lot of life to give up in order to better choices. you this time, the face of the university are beckoning to you, you can choose not to give up. can also say: you give up a lot in the past, that is, to this choice. example, why did not you work outside the home? why not stay at home farming? why seeing your parents morning to evening, busy doing farming work, and even sick exertion in the field, and you share those concerns did not go home for their problem-solving, can you give up so they are not all for this time of choice?

　　Both gave up so much, they chose today, why not try to choose tomorrow? beckon you do not choose to have this as another of the universities? there is the further purification of your soul, raise your quality, and increase your survivability, and improve your quality of life in the future to achieve greater value of life your furnace.

　　人生不長(zhǎng)，但很多次選擇，你今天來(lái)通過(guò)許多的選擇。等待超過(guò)60天，你又作出選擇，但選擇是你的生命是非常重要，非常關(guān)鍵的選擇。在很大程度上直接關(guān)系到你未來(lái)的人生方向的選擇，不管涉及到生命未來(lái)的輝煌，甚至生命的重大問(wèn)題取得成功。

　　最后的選擇，因?yàn)槟隳贻p，很大程度上是由你的父母或親屬，以幫助您做出選擇。然后，他們有能力幫助，您可以創(chuàng)造條件，幫助你（例如，以您的不同選擇，他們可以給你錢(qián)，你選擇讀生）。入口的選擇，但是這在很大程度上取決于你自己決定。因?yàn)椋旱谝唬�選擇難度較大，一些家長(zhǎng)和親屬也缺乏指導(dǎo)能力，二是政策選擇，一個(gè)更公平，他們可能有錢(qián)，但你也不能得分足夠的錢(qián)幫助你。因此，在這方面和自治的主要未來(lái)在你自己手里是有很多選擇。

　　考大學(xué)已經(jīng)創(chuàng)造了客觀條件的選擇。例如，大學(xué)一直是這里的門(mén)打開(kāi)面對(duì)每一個(gè)學(xué)生，你可以進(jìn)入他們的條件。另一個(gè)例子是，國(guó)家的招生政策是不針對(duì)個(gè)人，而是針對(duì)所有候選人，今年已經(jīng)形成，你可以只準(zhǔn)備通過(guò)政策要求，選擇的條件。另一個(gè)例子：你面對(duì)的教師和在過(guò)去60天以上的客觀因素，教學(xué)環(huán)境，基本上是恒定的。你只能適應(yīng)進(jìn)一步適應(yīng)。因此，您的當(dāng)前研究的客觀條件，如果我們只能面對(duì)每一代人已經(jīng)形成為生產(chǎn)力的條件，只能在此基礎(chǔ)上努力，以促進(jìn)現(xiàn)有生產(chǎn)力的發(fā)展，而不是抱怨主觀現(xiàn)在有生產(chǎn)率低下。今年的高考，你只能已經(jīng)形成由這些主觀和客觀條件，面臨的努力改善他們的學(xué)業(yè)表現(xiàn)。不要抱怨比我的客觀條件。

　　但有很多生活放棄，以更好的選擇。你這個(gè)時(shí)候，面對(duì)的是該大學(xué)向你招手，你可以選擇不放棄。也可以說(shuō)：你放棄了過(guò)去的很多，就是這個(gè)選擇。例如，你為什么不外出工作？為什么不留在家里耕作？為什么看到你的父母從早到晚，忙于耕作，即使在外地生病勞累，和大家分享這些擔(dān)心并沒(méi)有回家他們解決問(wèn)題的.，你可以放棄所以他們沒(méi)有這種選擇所有時(shí)間？

　　雙方放棄了這么多，他們選擇了今天，為什么不嘗試選擇明天？召喚你不選擇作為大學(xué)的另一個(gè)呢？有你的靈魂是進(jìn)一步凈化，提高您的品質(zhì)，并增加您的生存能力，并改善您在未來(lái)的生活質(zhì)量，實(shí)現(xiàn)更大的人生價(jià)值的熔爐。

　　In the center of your heart and my heart there’s a wireless station : so long as it receives messages of beauty , hope ,cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long as you are young .

　　When the aerials are down , and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old ,even at 20 , but as long as your aerials are up ,to catch waves of optimism , there is hope you may die young at 80.

　　Thank you!

　　青春

　　青春不是指歲月，而是指心態(tài)。粉嫩的臉，紅潤(rùn)的唇，矯健的膝并不是青春。青春表現(xiàn)在意志的堅(jiān)強(qiáng)與懦弱。想象的豐富與蒼白、情感的充沛與貧乏等方面。青春是生命深處清泉的噴涌。

　　青春是追求。只有當(dāng)勇氣蓋過(guò)怯弱、進(jìn)取壓倒茍安之時(shí)，青春才存在。果如此，則60見(jiàn)之長(zhǎng)者比20曛倌旮咔啻夯盍Α＝黿鏊暝碌牧魘挪⒉荒蓯顧撬ダ稀6壞┡灼硐牒托拍睿虼勾估弦病

　　歲月只能使皮膚起皺。而一旦喪失生活的激情，則連靈魂枯老，使人生枯如死水，毫無(wú)活力。

　　60歲長(zhǎng)者也好，16歲少年也罷，每個(gè)人的內(nèi)心深處都渴望奇跡，都如孩子一般眨著期待的雙眼，期待著下一次，期待著生活的情趣，你我靈魂深處都有一座無(wú)線電中轉(zhuǎn)站，只有你我年輕，則總能聽(tīng)到希望的唿喚，總能發(fā)出喜悅的歡唿，總能傳達(dá)勇氣的訊號(hào)，總能表現(xiàn)出青春的活力......

　　一旦青春的天線倒下，你的靈魂即為玩世不恭之雪、悲觀厭世之冰覆蓋；即使你年方20.其實(shí)你已垂垂老也。而只要你青春的天線高高聳起，就可以隨時(shí)接收到樂(lè)觀的電波，即使你年過(guò)八旬，行將就木，而你卻仍然擁有青春，你仍然年輕。

　　謝謝！

7.　口語(yǔ)演講稿 篇七

　　thank you, mr. chairman.

　　mr. chairman, i join my colleague mr. rangel in thanking you for giving the junior members of this committee the glorious opportunity of sharing the pain of this inquiry. mr. chairman, you are a strong man, and it has not been easy but we have tried as best we can to give you as much assistance as possible.

　　earlier today, we heard the beginning of the preamble to the constitution of the united states: "we, the people." it's a very eloquent beginning. but when that document was completed on the seventeenth of september in 1787, i was not included in that "we, the people." i felt somehow for many years that george washington and alexander hamilton just left me out by mistake. but through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, i have finally been included in "we, the people."

　　today i am an inquisitor. an hyperbole would not be fictional and would not overstate the solemnness that i feel right now. my faith in the constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. and i am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction, of the constitution.

　　"who can so properly be the inquisitors for the nation as the representatives of the nation themselves?" "the subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men." and that's what we're talking about. in other words, [the jurisdiction comes] from the abuse or violation of some public trust.

　　it is wrong, i suggest, it is a misreading of the constitution for any member here to assert that for a member to vote for an article of impeachment means that that member must be convinced that the president should be removed from office. the constitution doesn't say that. the powers relating to impeachment are an essential check in the hands of the body of the legislature against and upon the encroachments of the executive. the division between the two branches of the legislature, the house and the senate, assigning to the one the right to accuse and to the other the right to judge, the framers of this constitution were very astute. they did not make the accusers and the judgers -- and the judges the same person.

　　we know the nature of impeachment. we've been talking about it awhile now. it is chiefly designed for the president and his high ministers to somehow be called into account. it is designed to "bridle" the executive if he engages in excesses. "it is designed as a method of national inquest into the conduct of public men." the framers confided in the congress the power if need be, to remove the president in order to strike a delicate balance between a president swollen with power and grown tyrannical, and preservation of the independence of the executive.

　　the nature of impeachment: a narrowly channeled exception to the separation-of-powers maxim. the federal convention of 1787 said that. it limited impeachment to high crimes and misdemeanors and discounted and opposed the term "maladministration." "it is to be used only for great misdemeanors," so it was said in the north carolina ratification convention. and in the virginia ratification convention: "we do not trust our liberty to a particular branch. we need one branch to check the other."

　　"no one need be afraid" -- the north carolina ratification convention -- "no one need be afraid that officers who commit oppression will pass with immunity." "prosecutions of impeachments will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community," said hamilton in the federalist papers, number 65. "we divide into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused." i do not mean political parties in that sense.

8.　口語(yǔ)演講稿 篇八

　　dear teacher and classmates:

　　i am very glad to make a speech here in this class again! this time, id like to talk something about english.

　　i love english. english language is now used everywhere in the world. it has become the most common language on internet and for international trade. learning english makes me confident and brings me great pleasure.

　　when i was seven, my mother sent me to an english school. at there, i played games and sang english songs with other children . then i discovered the beauty of the language, and began my colorful dream in the english world.

　　everyday, i read english following the tapes. sometimes, i watch english cartoons.

　　on the weekend, i often go to the english corner. by talking with different people there, i have made more and more friends as well as improved my oral english.

　　i hope i can travel around the world someday. i want to go to america to visit washington monument, because the president

　　washington is my idol. of course, i want to go to london too, because england is where english language developed. if i can ride my bike in cambridge university, i will be very happy.

9.　口語(yǔ)演講稿 篇九

　　I have a very lucky family. There are five people in my family, my dad, mom, sister and brother.

　　My dad is a host of the family. He is tall and strong. He is a boss. He works very hard. He likes singing and doing sports. He is very funny. He cares about us. My mom is a boss, too. She likes planting. She is very busy every day. But she is very kind to us. We love her very much.

　　“ Tom, you are a naughty boy,” my mom always says. Yes, my brother Tom is really naughty. He likes sports very much. He usually makes funny of me. When I am angry every time, he always says: “ You look like a monkey!” I am even mad, but he is much happy.

　　My sister is a sports player. She is tall and strong. She has big eyes, small nose and mouth and two small ears. She is pretty and cute. She likes listening to music every much. “ Proud of you” is her favourite English song. She can sing very well and she even teaches me sing this song.

　　I am a happy girl. I like listening to music, too. like playing pingpong . I love my parents and they love me, too.

10.　口語(yǔ)演講稿 篇十

　　Everyone have some fris,me ,today,I want to introduce my best fris---Andy and Lily.

　　Andy,a is far as Im concerned, hes very kind-hearted and generous. Once I was in third grade, he treated me frily and sincerely. When I was happy, he was also happy with me. When I was sad, he always comforted me. When I was defeated, he always encouraged me. When I stumbled, he always pulled me up. Although we quarreled at times, we were still in good relationships. We could know each other better after the argument. When my birthday came, he always sent me a special present.

　　Hes very hard-working and intelligent. He always studied hard at school. Because of his hard work, he always did very well in exams. His oral English was better than mine. Most of the time, he was willing to chat with me in English. Owing to his help, I made a lot of progress in oral English.

　　Do you know his hobby? Let me tell you! His favourite sport is badminton. He enjoys doing housework and playing computer games. So her mother loves him very much. And all of his family love him，too.

　　Lily,s a she is is very good at English! And her English grades are very well!

　　I have known her since Grade SIX. We are both interested in English. Once both of us entered for an English contest. How eagerly I expected to get a prize! On hearing that I had failed in the contest, I could hardly hold back my tears. "What a pity!" I murmured to myself over and over again. I felt that the world had become cold and everyone seemed to be laughing at love English and have gone all out to study it since my first day in the junior middle school. I have even dreamed of entering a foreign language institute. So I felt very sad.

　　Just at this time, I received a short letter in English, saying, "Failure is the mother of success. Cheer up! Dont lose confidence. Keep on your study and you will succeed!" I knew it was the good fri of words encouraged me greatly. I forgot all my sadness. From then on, I studied English even harder. In the next English contest, I got the first prize. Of course, she was delighted with my success.

　　She always says，"A life without a fri is a life without sunshine。" My fri has done the same as he happy to have such a she is in trouble，Ill try my best to help her.

11.　口語(yǔ)演講稿 篇十一

　　Once upon a time, there was a sad elephant. He was dirty and stinky, because he could not reach to wash his back. All the other animals didn’t play with him because he was smelly.

　　Elephant sat under a tree, where nobody could see him. He started to cry. His head was hanging down, crying big tears. He sat and cried for days. One day, when his tears had dried up, he went to itch his head and he felt a bump on his back. Then he noticed his nose had stretched because it had got wet with all the crying and it was now a long trunk which had hit him on his back.

　　He went to the river and got his trunk, put it in the water and sucked the water up. Then he sprayed his back with water.

　　All the other animals came over to him and said “you are so clean and smell so lovely. Do you want to play with us?”

　　The elephant was so happy and said “yes.”

　　The End.

12.　口語(yǔ)演講稿 篇十二

　　thank you, mr. chairman.

　　mr. chairman, i join my colleague mr. rangel in thanking you for giving the junior members of this committee the glorious opportunity of sharing the pain of this inquiry. mr. chairman, you are a strong man, and it has not been easy but we have tried as best we can to give you as much assistance as possible.

　　earlier today, we heard the beginning of the preamble to the constitution of the united states: "we, the people." it's a very eloquent beginning. but when that document was completed on the seventeenth of september in 1787, i was not included in that "we, the people." i felt somehow for many years that george washington and alexander hamilton just left me out by mistake. but through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, i have finally been included in "we, the people."

　　today i am an inquisitor. an hyperbole would not be fictional and would not overstate the solemnness that i feel right now. my faith in the constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. and i am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction, of the constitution.

　　"who can so properly be the inquisitors for the nation as the representatives of the nation themselves?" "the subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men."¹ and that's what we're talking about. in other words, [the jurisdiction comes] from the abuse or violation of some public trust.

　　it is wrong, i suggest, it is a misreading of the constitution for any member here to assert that for a member to vote for an article of impeachment means that that member must be convinced that the president should be removed from office. the constitution doesn't say that. the powers relating to impeachment are an essential check in the hands of the body of the legislature against and upon the encroachments of the executive. the division between the two branches of the legislature, the house and the senate, assigning to the one the right to accuse and to the other the right to judge, the framers of this constitution were very astute. they did not make the accusers and the judgers -- and the judges the same person.

　　we know the nature of impeachment. we've been talking about it awhile now. it is chiefly designed for the president and his high ministers to somehow be called into account. it is designed to "bridle" the executive if he engages in excesses. "it is designed as a method of national inquest into the conduct of public men."² the framers confided in the congress the power if need be, to remove the president in order to strike a delicate balance between a president swollen with power and grown tyrannical, and preservation of the independence of the executive.

　　the nature of impeachment: a narrowly channeled exception to the separation-of-powers maxim. the federal convention of 1787 said that. it limited impeachment to high crimes and misdemeanors and discounted and opposed the term "maladministration." "it is to be used only for great misdemeanors," so it was said in the north carolina ratification convention. and in the virginia ratification convention: "we do not trust our liberty to a particular branch. we need one branch to check the other."

　　"no one need be afraid" -- the north carolina ratification convention -- "no one need be afraid that officers who commit oppression will pass with immunity." "prosecutions of impeachments will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community," said hamilton in the federalist papers, number 65. "we divide into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused."³ i do not mean political parties in that sense.

13.　口語(yǔ)演講稿 篇十三

　　hello,everyone.it is my great hornor and pleasure to share my movie preferance with you. as a movie fan, i have watched numbers of movies both domestic and abroad. maybe you are curious about which one is the most favourate among them. actually, it is hard for me to tell the best,because each prominent film has its characteristics. some of them are humorous to make you laugh, some are driving you burst to tears.

　　but it is indeed impressive to me to review the utmost disliked film-----"hero" which is directed by zhang yimou, in . although this film show numourous famous filmstars, but you can tell nothing more than its great sceens. what worse, the whole movie just tell a story of the failure assassinate the emperor of qin dynasty. it is hollow on the theme and mindlein the view of narrator. it is a not-uncommon phenomenon which is arising in china movie market. i think it is really a shame to invest so much money to creat a film about nothing.

　　as i consideration, a good film should belongs to a spiritual production which either to help us relax or improve our artific taste.thank you for your listen.

　　hello every body,i'm so happy that i've got the chance to introduce myself to you all. my chinese name is and mhy english name is ,i'm x years old.i live in.my favourite sport is ,i have many hobies .i love all the subjects at school. to attend all the lessons keep me always on the go.but i really enjoy the proceof improvement.

　　no doubt,chances are favourite prepared mind.i'll do my best for the bright future.that's all about me.thank you for listening to me.wish you all have a nice day today.

14.　口語(yǔ)演講稿 篇十四

　　she kindled a third match. again shot up the flame; and now she was sitting under a most beautiful christmas tree ,far larger, and far more prettily decked out, than the one she had seen last christmas eve through the glass doors of the rich merchant's house. hundreds of wax-tapers lighted up the green branches, and tiny painted figures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down from the tree upon her. the child stretched out her hands towards them in delight, and in that moment the lights of the match warm quenched; still, however, the christmas candles burned higher and higher， she beheld them beaming like stars in heaven; one of them fell, the lights streaming behind it like a long, fiery tail.

　　“now some one is dying,” said the little girl, softly, for she had been told by her old grandmother， the only person who had ever been kind to her, and who was now dead that whenever a star falls an immortal spirit returns to the god who gave it.

　　she struck yet another match against the wall; it flamed up, and surrounded by its light, appeared before her that same dear grandm