Without hesitation, the girl lit a second match, and before her appeared a wonderful room with a festively decorated table, on which there was a delicious roast goose with prunes and apples. The miraculous vision vanished as soon as the flame of the match burned out.
When the girl lit the third match, she "found herself under the most magnificent Christmas tree", more beautiful than which it was difficult to find in the whole city. She was richly decorated with toys and "burned with thousands of lights." The little girl only held out her hands to her, but the beautiful picture immediately disappeared - the match went out. Only wonderful lights began to rise higher and higher into the sky, until they "turned into clear stars."
Suddenly, one star rolled across the sky, "leaving a long trail of fire behind it." The girl decided that at that very moment someone was dying and his soul was about to be in heaven. She remembered how her grandmother - the only person who loved her with all her heart - said that if a star falls, it means "someone's soul goes to God."
The little one “strike a new match against the wall”, and her beloved grandmother appeared before her eyes, “so meek and affectionate”, surrounded by a wonderful radiance that the girl took her breath away. Until the vision disappeared, she began to beg her grandmother to take her with her. The girl really did not want her grandmother to disappear into the air, "like a warm stove, a wonderful roast goose and a big, glorious Christmas tree."
Without a second's hesitation, she lit all the remaining matches - "so she wanted to keep her grandmother." Such a bright flame flared up that it became brighter around than during the day. Grandmother, affectionately looking at the baby, took her in her arms, and they flew "high, high, where there is no cold, no hunger, no fear - to God."
In the early morning, around the corner of the house, people found a dead girl with a happy smile on her face. They felt sorry for the poor thing, who died from the cold, not knowing that she, along with her grandmother, ascended "to the New Year's joys in heaven ..."