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Pippi longstocking read large print. A. Lindgren. Pippi Longstocking (book chapters)

Pippi Langstrump

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Pippi Långstrump i Söderhavet

Pippi Långstrump © Text: Astrid Lindgren 1945 / Saltkrakan AB

Pippi Långstrump går ombord © Text: Astrid Lindgren 1946 / Saltkrakan AB

Pippi Langstrump i Söderhavet © Text: Astrid Lindgren 1948 / Saltkrakan AB

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How Pippi settled in the Chicken Villa

Before, Pippi had a father, and she loved him very much. Of course, she once had a mother, too, but Pippi no longer remembers her at all. Mom died a long time ago, when Pippi was still a tiny girl, lying in a stroller and screaming so terribly that no one dared to approach her. Pippi is sure that her mother now lives in heaven and looks from there through a small hole at her daughter. That's why Pippi often waves her hand and says every time:

- Don't be afraid, mom, I won't get lost!

But Pippi remembers her father very well. He was a sea captain, his ship plied the seas and oceans, and Pippi was never separated from her father. But then one day, during a strong storm, a huge wave washed him out to sea, and he disappeared. But Pippi was sure that one fine day her dad would return; she could not imagine that he had drowned. She decided that her father ended up on an island where many, many blacks live, became king there and walks around every day with a golden crown on his head.

- My dad is a black king! Not every girl can boast of such an amazing dad,” Pippi often repeated with visible pleasure. - When dad builds a boat, he will come for me, and I will become a black princess. Gay-hop! This will be great!

My father bought this old house, surrounded by a neglected garden, many years ago. He planned to settle here with Pippi when he grew old and could no longer drive ships. But after dad disappeared into the sea, Pippi went straight to her villa “Chicken” to wait for his return. Villa “Chicken” was the name of this old house. There was furniture in the rooms, utensils hung in the kitchen - it seemed that everything had been specially prepared so that Pippi could live here. One quiet summer evening, Pippi said goodbye to the sailors on her father's ship. They all loved Pippi so much, and Pippi loved them all so much that it was very sad to leave.

- Goodbye, guys! - said Pippi and kissed each one on the forehead in turn. - Don't be afraid, I won't disappear!

She took only two things with her: a small monkey whose name was Mr. Nilsson - she received it as a gift from her dad - and a large suitcase filled with gold coins. All the sailors lined up on the deck and sadly looked after the girl until she disappeared from sight. But Pippi walked with a firm step and never looked back. Mister Nilsson was sitting on her shoulder, and she was carrying a suitcase in her hand.

- She left alone... Strange girl... But how can you hold her back! - said the sailor Fridolf when Pippi disappeared around the bend, and wiped away a tear.

He was right, Pippi really is a strange girl. What is most striking is her extraordinary physical strength, and there is no policeman on earth who could cope with her. She could jokingly lift a horse if she wanted - and you know, she does this often. After all, Pippi has a horse, which she bought on the very day she moved into her villa. Pippi always dreamed of a horse. The horse lives on her terrace. And when Pippi wants to have a cup of coffee there after dinner, without thinking twice she takes the horse out into the garden.

Next to the villa “Chicken” there is another house, also surrounded by a garden. In this house live a father, a mother and two cute children - a boy and a girl. The boy's name is Tommy, and the girl's name is Annika. These are nice, well-mannered and obedient children. Tommy never begs anyone for anything and carries out all his mother’s instructions without arguing. Annika doesn't get capricious when she doesn't get what she wants, and she always looks so smart in her clean, starched chintz dresses. Tommy and Annika played together in their garden, but still they missed the children's company, and they dreamed of finding a playmate. At a time when Pippi was still sailing with her father across the seas and oceans, Tommy and Annika sometimes climbed the fence separating the garden of the Chicken Villa from their garden, and each time they said:

- What a pity that no one lives in this house. It would be great if someone with children could live here.

On that clear summer evening when Pippi first crossed the threshold of her villa, Tommy and Annika were not at home. Mom sent them to stay with their grandmother for a week. Therefore, they had no idea that someone had moved into the neighboring house. They returned from their grandmother in the evening, and the next morning they stood at their gate, looking at the street, still not knowing anything, and discussing what they should do. And just at that moment, when it seemed to them that they would not be able to come up with anything funny and that the day would pass boringly, just at that moment the gate of the neighboring house opened and a girl ran out into the street. This was the most amazing girl Tommy and Annika had ever seen.

Pippi Longstocking was going for a morning walk. This is what she looked like: her carrot-colored hair was braided into two tight braids that stuck out in different directions; the nose looked like a tiny potato, and besides, it was speckled with freckles; White teeth sparkled in his large, wide mouth. She was wearing blue dress, but since she apparently didn’t have enough blue material, she sewed red patches into it here and there. She pulled long stockings of different colors onto her very thin and thin legs: one was brown and the other was black. And the huge black shoes seemed about to fall off. Dad bought them for her to grow in South Africa, and Pippi never wanted to wear others.

And when Tommy and Annika saw that a monkey was sitting on the shoulder of an unfamiliar girl, they simply froze in amazement. The little monkey was dressed in blue trousers, a yellow jacket and a white straw hat.

I. How Pippi settled in the “Chicken” villa

On the outskirts of a small Swedish town you will see a very neglected garden. And in the garden stands a dilapidated house, blackened by time. It is in this house that Pippi Longstocking lives. She was nine years old, but imagine, she lives there all alone. She has neither a father nor a mother, and, frankly, this even has its advantages - no one makes her go to sleep right in the middle of the game and no one forces her to drink fish oil when she wants to eat candy.
Before, Pippi had a father, and she loved him very much. Of course, she once had a mother, too, but Pippi no longer remembers her at all. Mom died a long time ago, when Pippi was still a tiny girl, lying in a stroller and screaming so terribly that no one dared to approach her. Pippi is sure that her mother now lives in heaven and looks from there through a small hole at her daughter. That's why Pippi often waves her hand and says every time:
- Don't be afraid, mom, I won't get lost!
But Pippi remembers her father very well. He was a sea captain, his ship plied the seas and oceans, and Pippi was never separated from her father. But then one day, during a strong storm, a huge wave washed him out to sea, and he disappeared. But Pippi was sure that one fine day her dad would return; she could not imagine that he had drowned. She decided that her father ended up on an island where many, many blacks live, became king there and walks around every day with a golden crown on his head.
- My dad is a black king! Not every girl can boast of such an amazing dad,” Pippi often repeated with visible pleasure. - When dad builds a boat, he will come for me, and I will become a black princess. Gay-hop! This will be great!
My father bought this old house, surrounded by a neglected garden, many years ago. He planned to settle here with Pippi when he grew old and could no longer drive ships. But after dad disappeared into the sea, Pippi went straight to her villa “Chicken” to wait for his return. Villa “Chicken” was the name of this old house. There was furniture in the rooms, utensils hung in the kitchen - it seemed that everything had been specially prepared so that Pippi could live here. One quiet summer evening, Pippi said goodbye to the sailors on her father's ship. They all loved Pippi so much, and Pippi loved them all so much that it was very sad to leave.
- Goodbye, guys! - said Pippi and kissed each one on the forehead in turn. Don't be afraid, I won't disappear!
She took only two things with her: a small monkey whose name was Mr. Nilsson - she received it as a gift from her dad - and a large suitcase filled with gold coins. All the sailors lined up on the deck and sadly looked after the girl until she disappeared from sight. But Pippi walked with a firm step and never looked back. Mr. Nilsson was sitting on her shoulder, and she was carrying a suitcase in her hand.
- She left alone... Strange girl... But how can you hold her back! - said the sailor Fridolf when Pippi disappeared around the bend, and wiped away a tear.
He was right, Pippi really is a strange girl. What is most striking is her extraordinary physical strength, and there is no policeman on earth who could cope with her. She could jokingly lift a horse if she wanted - and you know, she does this often. After all, Pippi has a horse, which she bought on the very day she moved into her villa. Pippi always dreamed of a horse. The horse lives on her terrace. And when Pippi wants to have a cup of coffee there after lunch, she, without hesitation, takes the horse out into the garden.
Next to the Villa “Chicken” there is another house, also surrounded by a garden. In this house live a father, a mother and two cute children - a boy and a girl. The boy's name is Tommy, and the girl's name is Annika. These are nice, well-mannered and obedient children. Tommy never begs anyone for anything and carries out all his mother’s instructions without arguing. Annika doesn't get capricious when she doesn't get what she wants, and she always looks so smart in her clean, starched chintz dresses. Tommy and Annika played together in their garden, but still they missed the children's company, and they dreamed of finding a playmate. At a time when Pippi was still sailing with her father across the seas and oceans, Tommy and Annika sometimes climbed the fence separating the garden of the Chicken Villa from their garden, and each time they said:
- What a pity that no one lives in this house. It would be great if someone with children could live here.
On that clear summer evening, when Pippi first crossed the threshold of her villa, Tommy and Annika were away. Mom sent them to stay with their grandmother for a week. Therefore, they had no idea that someone had moved into the neighboring house. They returned from their grandmother in the evening, and the next morning they stood at their gate, looking at the street, still not knowing anything, and discussing what they should do. And just at that moment, when it seemed to them that they would not be able to come up with anything funny and that the day would pass boringly, just at that moment the gate of the neighboring house opened and a girl ran out into the street. This was the most amazing girl Tommy and Annika had ever seen.
Pippi Longstocking was going for a morning walk. This is what she looked like: her carrot-colored hair was braided into two tight braids that stuck out in different directions; the nose looked like a tiny potato, and besides, it was speckled with freckles; White teeth sparkled in his large, wide mouth. She was wearing a blue dress, but since she apparently didn’t have enough blue material, she sewed red patches into it here and there. She pulled long stockings of different colors onto her very thin and thin legs: one was brown and the other was black. And the huge black shoes seemed about to fall off. Dad bought them for her to grow in South Africa, and Pippi never wanted to wear others.
When Tommy and Annika saw a monkey sitting on the shoulder of an unfamiliar girl, they simply froze in amazement. The little monkey was dressed in blue trousers, a yellow jacket and a white straw hat.
Pippi walked along the street, one foot on the sidewalk, the other on the pavement. Tommy and Annika kept their eyes on her, but she disappeared around the bend. However, the girl soon returned, but now she was already walking backwards. Moreover, she walked like that only because she was too lazy to turn around when she decided to return home. When she reached Tommy and Annika's gate, she stopped. The children looked at each other in silence for a minute. Finally Tommy said:
- Why are you backing away like a cancer?
- Why do I sag like a lobster? – asked Pippi. – It’s like we live in a free country, right? Can't every person walk as he pleases? And in general, if you want to know, everyone walks like this in Egypt, and it doesn’t surprise anyone at all.
- How do you know? – asked Tommy. – You haven’t been to Egypt.
- How?! I have not been to Egypt?! – Pippi was indignant. – So, get it out of your head: I was in Egypt and generally traveled all over the world and saw plenty of all sorts of miracles. I've seen funnier things than people who back away like crayfish. I wonder what you would say if I walked down the street on my hands, as they do in India? Pippi thought for a minute.
“That’s right, I’m lying,” she said sadly.
- A complete lie! – Annika confirmed, finally deciding to insert a word.
“Yeah, a complete lie,” Pippi agreed, becoming more and more sad. “But sometimes I start to forget what happened and what didn’t happen.” And how can you demand that a little girl, whose mother is an angel in heaven, and whose father is a black king on an island in the ocean, always speaks only the truth? And besides,” she added, and her whole freckled little face shone, “in all the Belgian Congo there is not a person who would say even one truthful word.” Everyone lies there all day long. They lie from seven in the morning until sunset. So if I ever accidentally lie to you, you shouldn't be mad at me. I lived in this same Belgian Congo for a very long time. But we can still make friends! Right?
- Still would! - Tommy exclaimed and suddenly realized that this day would certainly not be called boring.
“Why don’t you, for example, come and have breakfast with me now?” – asked Pippi.
“Really,” said Tommy, “why don’t we do that?” Went!
- That's great! – Annika screamed. - Let's go quickly! Let's go!
“But first I must introduce you to Mr. Nilsson,” Pippi realized.
At these words, the little monkey took off his hat and bowed politely.
Pippi pushed the dilapidated gate, and the children moved along the gravel path straight to the house. There were huge old mossy trees in the garden, made for climbing. All three went up to the terrace. There was a horse standing there. With her head in the soup bowl, she chewed oats.
- Listen, why is your horse standing on the terrace? – Tommy was amazed. All the horses he had ever seen lived in stables.
“You see,” Pippi began thoughtfully, “in the kitchen she would only get in the way, and in the living room she would be uncomfortable - there is too much furniture there.”
Tommy and Annika looked at the horse and entered the house. In addition to the kitchen, there were two more rooms in the house - a bedroom and a living room. But, apparently, Pippi didn’t even think about cleaning for a whole week. Tommy and Annika looked around cautiously to see if the Negro king was sitting in some corner. After all, they had never seen a black king in their lives. But the children found no signs of either dad or mom.
– Do you live here all alone? – Annika asked with fear.
- Of course not! There are three of us living: Mr. Nilsson, the horse and me.
– And you have neither a mother nor a father?
- Well, yes! – Pippi exclaimed joyfully.
- And who tells you in the evenings: “It’s time to go to bed?”
– I’m telling myself. First, I say to myself in a very gentle voice: “Pippi, go to bed.” And if I don’t obey, then I repeat it strictly. When this doesn’t help, I feel really bad about myself. It's clear?
Tommy and Annika couldn't understand it, but then they thought that maybe it wasn't so bad.
The children entered the kitchen and Pippi sang:

Get the frying pan on the stove!
We will bake pancakes.
There is flour, and salt, and butter,
We'll be eating soon!

Pippi took three eggs from the basket and, throwing them over her head, broke one after the other. The first egg flowed right onto her head and covered her eyes. But she managed to deftly catch the other two in a saucepan.
“I’ve always been told that eggs are very good for hair,” she said, rubbing her eyes. – You will now see how quickly my hair will begin to grow. Hear, they are already creaking. In Brazil, no one goes out into the street without thickly smearing egg on their head. I remember there was one old man there, so stupid, he ate all the eggs instead of pouring them on his head. And he became so bald that when he left the house, there was a real commotion in the city, and they had to call police cars with loudspeakers to restore order...
Pippi spoke and at the same time chose from the saucepan the one that got there. eggshells. Then she took off the long-handled brush that was hanging on a nail and began to beat the dough with it so hard that it splattered all over the walls. She poured what was left in the saucepan into a frying pan that had been on the fire for a long time. The pancake immediately browned on one side, and she tossed it in the frying pan, so deftly that it turned over in the air and plopped back down with the uncooked side. When the pancake was baked, Pippi threw it across the kitchen straight onto the plate standing on the table.
- Eat! - she shouted. - Eat quickly before it gets cold.
Tommy and Annika did not have to ask themselves and found that the pancake was very tasty. When the food was finished, Pippi invited her new friends into the living room. Apart from a chest of drawers with a huge number of small drawers, there was no other furniture in the living room. Pippi began to open the drawers one by one and show Tommy and Annika all the treasures she kept. There were rare bird eggs, outlandish shells and colorful sea pebbles. There were also carved boxes, elegant mirrors in silver frames, beads and many other little things that Pippi and her father bought during their travels around the world. Pippi immediately wanted to give her new friends something to remember. Tommy received a dagger with a mother-of-pearl handle, and Annika received a box with many, many snails carved on the lid. The box contained a ring with a green stone.
“Now take your gifts and go home,” Pippi suddenly said. “After all, if you don’t leave here, you won’t be able to come to me again tomorrow.” And that would be a great pity.
Tommy and Annika were of the same opinion and went home. They walked past the horse, which had already eaten all the oats, and ran out through the garden gate. Mr. Nilsson waved his hat at them in farewell.

II. How Pippi gets into a fight

The next morning Annika woke up very early. She quickly jumped out of bed and crept up to her brother.
“Wake up, Tommy,” she whispered and shook his hand. - Wake up, let's quickly go to that strange girl in big shoes.
Tommy woke up immediately.
“You know, even in my sleep I felt that something very interesting was waiting for us today, although I didn’t remember what exactly,” he said, taking off his pajama jacket.
They both ran to the bathroom, washed and brushed their teeth much faster than usual, got dressed instantly and, to the surprise of their mother, a full hour earlier than usual, went downstairs and sat down at the kitchen table, declaring that they wanted to drink chocolate immediately.
-What are you going to do this early? - Mom asked. – Why are you in such a hurry?
“We are going to the girl who has settled in the neighboring house,” Tommy answered.
“And maybe we’ll spend the whole day there!” – Annika added.
Just that morning, Pippi was getting ready to bake some flatbread. She kneaded a lot of dough and began to roll it out right on the floor.
“I think, Mr. Nilsson,” Pippi turned to the monkey, “that it’s not worth taking on the dough if you’re going to bake less than half a thousand cakes.”
And, stretching out on the floor, she again began to work with fervor with the rolling pin.
“Come on, Mr. Nilsson, stop fiddling with the dough,” she said with irritation, and at that moment the bell rang.
Pippi, covered in flour, like a miller, jumped up from the floor and rushed to open it. As she warmly shook hands with Tommy and Annika, a cloud of agony enveloped them all.
“How kind of you to stop by,” she said and pulled down her apron, causing a new flour cloud to rise.
Tommy and Annika even coughed - they had swallowed so much flour.
- What are you doing? – asked Tommy.
“If I tell you that I’m cleaning a pipe, you still won’t believe me, because you’re such a cunning person,” answered Pippi. - Of course, I’m baking cakes. This will become even clearer soon. In the meantime, sit down on this chest.
And she took up the rolling pin again.
Tommy and Annika sat on the chest and watched, as if in a movie, how Pippi rolled out the dough on the floor, how she threw the cakes on the baking sheets and how she put the baking sheets in the oven.
- All! - Pippi finally exclaimed and slammed the oven door, pushing the last baking sheet into it.
– What are we going to do now? – Tommy asked.
– I don’t know what you are going to do. In any case, I won’t be idle. I’m a dealer... And a dealer doesn’t have a single free minute.
- Who are you? – Annika asked.
- Dillector!
– What does “dealer” mean? - asked Tommy.
– A dillector is someone who always puts everything in order. “Everyone knows that,” said Pippi, sweeping the remaining flour on the floor into a pile. - After all, there is an abyss of all sorts of different things scattered on the earth. Someone must keep order. This is what a dealer does!
- The abyss of what things? – Annika asked.
“Yes, very different,” Pippi explained. - And gold bars, and ostrich feathers, and dead rats, and multi-colored candies, and small nuts, and all sorts of others.
Tommy and Annika decided that tidying up was a very pleasant activity, and they also wanted to become dealers. Moreover, Tommy said that he hoped to find a gold bar, and not a small nut.
“Let's see how lucky we are,” said Pippi. – You always find something. But we need to hurry. And then, just behold, all sorts of other dealers will come running and steal all the gold bars that are lying around in these places.
And the three lecturers immediately set off. They decided first of all to put things in order near the houses, since Pippi said that the best things are always lying around near human habitation, although sometimes it happens to find a nut in the thicket of the forest.
- As a rule, this is so. - Pippi explained, - but it happens differently. I remember once, during one trip, I decided to restore order in the jungle on the island of Borneo, and do you know what I found in the thicket itself, where no human foot had ever set foot? Do you know what I found there?.. A real artificial leg, and a completely new one at that. I later gave it to a one-legged old man, and he said that he couldn’t buy such a beautiful piece of wood for any money.
Tommy and Annika looked at Pippi with all their eyes to learn to behave like real dealers. And Pippi rushed along the street from sidewalk to sidewalk, every now and then putting the visor of her palm to her eyes to see better, and searched tirelessly. Suddenly she knelt down and stuck her hand between the fence slats.
“It’s strange,” she said disappointedly, “it seemed to me that a gold bar sparkled here.”
– Is it true that you can take everything you find for yourself? – Annika asked.
“Well, yes, everything that lies on the ground,” Pippi confirmed.
On the lawn in front of the house, right on the grass, an elderly gentleman was lying and sleeping.
- Look! - Pippi exclaimed. “He’s lying on the ground, and we found him.” Let's take him! Tommy and Annika were seriously scared.
“No, no, Pippi, what are you... You can’t take him away... It’s impossible,” said Tommy. - And what would we do with him?
– What would they do with him? – asked Pippi. - Yes, he can be useful for a lot of things. You can put him, for example, in a rabbit cage and feed him dandelion leaves... But since you don’t want to take him, then fine, let him lie there. It’s just a shame that other dealers will come and pick up this guy.
They moved on. Suddenly Pippi let out a wild scream.
“But now I’ve actually found something!” – and pointed to a rusty tin can lying in the grass. - What a find! Wow! This jar will always come in handy.
Tommy looked at the jar with confusion.
– What will it be useful for? - he asked.
- Whatever you want! - Pippi answered. - Firstly, you can put gingerbread in it, and then it will turn into a wonderful Jar of Gingerbread. Secondly, you don’t have to put gingerbread in it. And then it will be a Jar Without Gingerbread and, of course, will not be so beautiful, but still not everyone comes across such jars, that’s for sure.
Pippi carefully examined the rusty jar she found, which also turned out to be full of holes. and, after thinking, said:
– But this jar is more like a Jar Without Gingerbread. You can also put it on your head. Like this! Look, she covered my whole face. How dark it became! Now I will play into the night. How interesting!
With a can on her head, Pippi began to run back and forth along the street until she sprawled on the ground, tripping over a piece of wire. The can rolled into the ditch with a crash.
“You see,” said Pippi, picking up the can, “if I hadn’t had this thing on me, I would have bloodied my nose.”
“And I think,” Annika noted, “that if you hadn’t put the jar on your head, you would never have tripped over that wire...”
But Pippi interrupted her with a jubilant cry: she saw an empty spool on the road.
- How lucky I am today! What a happy day! - she exclaimed. - What a small, small reel! Do you know how great it is to let go of her? bubble! And if you thread a string through the hole, then this reel can be worn around your neck like a necklace. So, I went home to get some rope.
Just at that moment, the gate in the fence surrounding one of the houses opened, and a girl ran out into the street. She looked extremely frightened, and this is not surprising - five boys were chasing her. The boys surrounded her and pressed her against the fence. They had a very advantageous position for attack. All five immediately took a boxing stance and began to hit the girl. She began to cry and raised her hands to protect her face.
- Hit her, guys! - shouted the largest and strongest of the boys. – So that she doesn’t show her nose on our street again.
- Oh! – Annika exclaimed. “But they’re the ones beating Ville!” Ugly boys!
“That big one over there is called Bengt,” said Tommy. - He always fights. Nasty guy. And five of them attacked one girl!
Pippi walked up to the boys and poked Bengt in the back index finger.
– Hey, listen, there is an opinion that if you fight with little Ville, then it’s better to do it one on one, and not to attack five of us.
Bengt turned around and saw a girl he had never met here before. Yes, yes, a completely unfamiliar girl, and even one who dared to touch him with her finger! For a moment he froze in amazement, and then his face broke into a mocking smile.
– Hey guys, come on over to Ville and look at this scarecrow! - He pointed to Pippi. - That's how kikimora!
He literally doubled over with laughter; he laughed with his palms on his knees. All the boys immediately surrounded Pippi, and Ville, wiping away her tears, quietly stepped aside and stood next to Tommy.
- No, just look at her hair! – Bengt did not let up. - Red as fire. And the shoes, the shoes! Hey, lend me one - I was just about to go boating, but didn’t know where to get one!
He grabbed Pippi by the braid, but immediately withdrew his hand with a feigned grimace:
- Oh, oh, I got burned!
And all five boys began jumping around Pippi and yelling in different voices:
- Redhead! Redhead!
And Pippi stood in the ring of raging children and laughed merrily.
Bengt hoped that the girl would get angry, or better yet, cry; and I certainly did not expect that she would look at them calmly and even friendly. Convinced that words would not get her through, Bengt pushed Pippi.
“I can’t say that you treat ladies politely,” Pippi remarked and, grabbing Bengt with her strong hands, threw him into the air so high that he hung on the branch of a birch tree growing nearby. Then she grabbed the other boy and threw him onto another branch. She threw the third one at the gate of the villa. The fourth one was thrown over the fence straight into the flowerbed. And the last one, the fifth one, she squeezed into a toy stroller standing on the road. Pippi, Tommy, Annika and Ville silently looked at the boys, who were apparently speechless from amazement.
- Hey you cowards! - Pippi finally exclaimed. – Five of you attack one girl – that’s meanness! And then you pull the braid and push another little, defenseless girl... Ugh, how disgusting you are... It's a shame! Well, let’s go home,” she said, turning to Tommy and Annika. – And if they dare to even lay a finger on you, Ville, you tell me.
Pippi looked up at Bengt, who was still hanging on the branch, afraid to move, and said:
“Maybe you want to say something else about the color of my hair or the size of my shoes, go ahead and say it while I’m here.”
But Bengt lost all desire to speak out on any topic. Pippi waited a little, then took a tin can in one hand, a spool in the other, and left, accompanied by Tommy and Annika.
When the children returned to Pippi's garden, she said:
“My dears, I’m so annoyed: I found two such wonderful things, and you found nothing.” You have to search a little more. Tommy, why don't you look into the hollow of that old tree over there? Speakers should not pass by such trees.
Tommy said that neither he nor Annika would find anything good anyway, but since Pippi asks him to look, he is ready. And he stuck his hand into the hollow.
- Oh! - he exclaimed in amazement and pulled out from the hollow a small leather-bound notebook with a silver pencil. - Strange! – Tommy said, examining his find.
- Here you see! I told you that there is no better job in the world than being a lecturer, and I just can’t imagine why so few people choose this profession. There are as many carpenters and chimney sweeps as you want, but go look for dealers.
Then Pippi turned to Annika.
- Why don’t you rummage under this stump! You often find the most wonderful things under old tree stumps. – Annika listened to Pippi’s advice, and immediately she found a red coral necklace in her hands. The brother and sister even opened their mouths in surprise and decided that from now on they would always be dealers.
Suddenly Pippi remembered that she only went to bed this morning because she had been playing with a ball and she immediately wanted to sleep.
“Please come with me and cover me well, and tuck me a blanket.”
When Pippi, sitting on the edge of the bed, began to take off her shoes, she said thoughtfully:
“This Bengt wanted to go boating.” The rider has also been found! – she snorted with contempt. - I'll teach him a lesson another time.
“Listen, Pippi,” Tommy asked politely, “but still, why do you have such huge shoes?”
– Of course – for convenience. What else is it for? - Pippi said and lay down. She always slept with her feet on the pillow and her head under the blanket.

Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren

A humorous story by a famous Swedish writer about wonderful travels and the funny adventures of a girl named Pippi Longstocking, who had a kind heart, a generous soul and a too hot head.

Astrid Lindgren. Pippi Longstocking

Astrid Lindgren

Pippi Longstocking

Pippi moves into the villa "Chicken"

I. How Pippi settled in the “Chicken” villa

- Don't be afraid, mom, I won't get lost!

- Goodbye, guys! - said Pippi and kissed each one on the forehead in turn. Don't be afraid, I won't disappear!

She took only two things with her: a small monkey whose name was Mr. Nilsson - she received it as a gift from her dad - and a large suitcase filled with gold coins. All the sailors lined up on the deck and sadly looked after the girl until she disappeared from sight. But Pippi walked with a firm step and never looked back. Mr. Nilsson was sitting on her shoulder, and she was carrying a suitcase in her hand.

- She left alone... Strange girl... But how can you hold her back! - said the sailor Fridolf when Pippi disappeared around the bend, and wiped away a tear.

He was right, Pippi really is a strange girl. What is most striking is her extraordinary physical strength, and there is no policeman on earth who could cope with her. She could jokingly lift a horse if she wanted - and you know, she does this often. After all, Pippi has a horse, which she bought on the very day she moved into her villa. Pippi always dreamed of a horse. The horse lives on her terrace. And when Pippi wants to have a cup of coffee there after lunch, she, without hesitation, takes the horse out into the garden.

Next to the Villa “Chicken” there is another house, also surrounded by a garden. In this house live a father, a mother and two cute children - a boy and a girl. The boy's name is Tommy, and the girl's name is Annika. These are nice, well-mannered and obedient children. Tommy never begs anyone for anything and carries out all his mother’s instructions without arguing. Annika doesn't get capricious when she doesn't get what she wants, and she always looks so smart in her clean, starched chintz dresses. Tommy and Annika played together in their garden, but still they missed the children's company, and they dreamed of finding a playmate. At a time when Pippi was still sailing with her father across the seas and oceans, Tommy and Annika sometimes climbed the fence separating the garden of the Chicken Villa from their garden, and each time they said:

- What a pity that no one lives in this house. It would be great if someone with children could live here.

On that clear summer evening, when Pippi first crossed the threshold of her villa, Tommy and Annika were away. Mom sent them to stay with their grandmother for a week. Therefore, they had no idea that someone had moved into the neighboring house. They returned from their grandmother in the evening, and the next morning they stood at their gate, looking at the street, still not knowing anything, and discussing what they should do. And just at that moment, when it seemed to them that they would not be able to come up with anything funny and that the day would pass boringly, just at that moment the gate of the neighboring house opened and a girl ran out into the street. This was the most amazing girl Tommy and Annika had ever seen.

Pippi Longstocking was going for a morning walk. This is what she looked like: her carrot-colored hair was braided into two tight braids that stuck out in different directions; the nose looked like a tiny potato, and besides, it was speckled with freckles; White teeth sparkled in his large, wide mouth. She was wearing a blue dress, but since she apparently didn’t have enough blue material, she sewed red patches into it here and there. She pulled long stockings of different colors onto her very thin and thin legs: one was brown and the other was black. And the huge black shoes seemed about to fall off. Dad bought them for her to grow in South Africa, and Pippi never wanted to wear others.

When Tommy and Annika saw a monkey sitting on the shoulder of an unfamiliar girl, they simply froze in amazement. The little monkey was dressed in blue trousers, a yellow jacket and a white straw hat.

Pippi walked along the street, one foot on the sidewalk, the other on the pavement. Tommy and Annika kept their eyes on her, but she disappeared around the bend. However, the girl soon returned, but now she was already walking backwards. Moreover, she walked like that only because she was too lazy to turn around when she decided to return home. When she reached Tommy and Annika's gate, she stopped. The children looked at each other in silence for a minute. Finally Tommy said:

- Why are you backing away like a cancer?

- Why do I sag like a lobster? – asked Pippi. – It’s like we live in a free country, right? Can't every person walk as he pleases? And in general, if you want to know, everyone walks like this in Egypt, and it doesn’t surprise anyone at all.

- How do you know? – asked Tommy. – You haven’t been to Egypt.

- How?! I have not been to Egypt?! – Pippi was indignant. – So, get it out of your head: I was in Egypt and generally traveled all over the world and saw plenty of all sorts of miracles. I've seen funnier things than people who back away like crayfish. I wonder what you would say if I walked down the street on my hands, as they do in India? Pippi thought for a minute.

“That’s right, I’m lying,” she said sadly.

- A complete lie! – Annika confirmed, finally deciding to insert a word.

“Yeah, a complete lie,” Pippi agreed, becoming more and more sad. “But sometimes I start to forget what happened and what didn’t happen.” And how can you demand that a little girl, whose mother is an angel in heaven, and whose father is a black king on an island in the ocean, always speaks only the truth? And besides,” she added, and her whole freckled little face shone, “in all the Belgian Congo there is not a person who would say even one truthful word.” Everyone lies there all day long. They lie from seven in the morning until sunset. So if I ever accidentally lie to you, you shouldn't be mad at me. I lived in this same Belgian Congo for a very long time. But we can still make friends! Right?

- Still would! - Tommy exclaimed and suddenly realized that this day would certainly not be called boring.

“Why don’t you, for example, come and have breakfast with me now?” – asked Pippi.

“Really,” said Tommy, “why don’t we do that?” Went!

- That's great! – Annika screamed. - Let's go quickly! Let's go!

“But first I must introduce you to Mr. Nilsson,” Pippi realized.

At these words, the little monkey took off his hat and bowed politely.

Pippi pushed the dilapidated gate, and the children moved along the gravel path straight to the house. There were huge old mossy trees in the garden, made for climbing. All three went up to the terrace. There was a horse standing there. With her head in the soup bowl, she chewed oats.

- Listen, why is your horse standing on the terrace? – Tommy was amazed. All the horses he had ever seen lived in stables.

“You see,” Pippi began thoughtfully, “in the kitchen she would only get in the way, and in the living room she would be uncomfortable - there is too much furniture there.”

Tommy and Annika looked at the horse and entered the house. In addition to the kitchen, there were two more rooms in the house - a bedroom and a living room. But, apparently, Pippi didn’t even think about cleaning for a whole week. Tommy and Annika looked around cautiously to see if the Negro king was sitting in some corner. After all, they had never seen a black king in their lives. But the children found no signs of either dad or mom.

– Do you live here all alone? – Annika asked with fear.

- Of course not! There are three of us living: Mr. Nilsson, the horse and me.

– And you have neither a mother nor a father?

- Well, yes! – Pippi exclaimed joyfully.

- And who tells you in the evenings: “It’s time to go to bed?”

– I’m telling myself. First, I say to myself in a very gentle voice: “Pippi, go to bed.” And if I don’t obey, then I repeat it strictly. When this doesn’t help, I feel really bad about myself. It's clear?

Tommy and Annika couldn't understand it, but then they thought that maybe it wasn't so bad.

The children entered the kitchen and Pippi sang:

Get the frying pan on the stove!
We will bake pancakes.
There is flour, and salt, and butter,
We'll be eating soon!

“I’ve always been told that eggs are very good for hair,” she said, rubbing her eyes. – You will now see how quickly my hair will begin to grow. Hear, they are already creaking. In Brazil, no one goes out into the street without thickly smearing egg on their head. I remember there was one old man there, so stupid, he ate all the eggs instead of pouring them on his head. And he became so bald that when he left the house, there was a real commotion in the city, and they had to call police cars with loudspeakers to restore order...

Pippi spoke and at the same time picked out an eggshell that had fallen into it from the saucepan. Then she took off the long-handled brush that was hanging on a nail and began to beat the dough with it so hard that it splattered all over the walls. She poured what was left in the saucepan into a frying pan that had been on the fire for a long time. The pancake immediately browned on one side, and she tossed it in the frying pan, so deftly that it turned over in the air and plopped back down with the uncooked side. When the pancake was baked, Pippi threw it across the kitchen straight onto the plate standing on the table.

- Eat! - she shouted. - Eat quickly before it gets cold.

Tommy and Annika did not have to ask themselves and found that the pancake was very tasty. When the food was finished, Pippi invited her new friends into the living room. Apart from a chest of drawers with a huge number of small drawers, there was no other furniture in the living room. Pippi began to open the drawers one by one and show Tommy and Annika all the treasures she kept. There were rare bird eggs, outlandish shells and colorful sea pebbles. There were also carved boxes, elegant mirrors in silver frames, beads and many other little things that Pippi and her father bought during their travels around the world. Pippi immediately wanted to give her new friends something to remember. Tommy received a dagger with a mother-of-pearl handle, and Annika received a box with many, many snails carved on the lid. The box contained a ring with a green stone.

“Now take your gifts and go home,” Pippi suddenly said. “After all, if you don’t leave here, you won’t be able to come to me again tomorrow.” And that would be a great pity.

Tommy and Annika were of the same opinion and went home. They walked past the horse, which had already eaten all the oats, and ran out through the garden gate. Mr. Nilsson waved his hat at them in farewell.

II. How Pippi gets into a fight

The next morning Annika woke up very early. She quickly jumped out of bed and crept up to her brother.

“Wake up, Tommy,” she whispered and shook his hand. - Wake up, let's quickly go to that strange girl in big shoes.

Tommy woke up immediately.

“You know, even in my sleep I felt that something very interesting was waiting for us today, although I didn’t remember what exactly,” he said, taking off his pajama jacket.

They both ran to the bathroom, washed and brushed their teeth much faster than usual, got dressed instantly and, to the surprise of their mother, a full hour earlier than usual, went downstairs and sat down at the kitchen table, declaring that they wanted to drink chocolate immediately.

-What are you going to do this early? - Mom asked. – Why are you in such a hurry?

“We are going to the girl who has settled in the neighboring house,” Tommy answered.

“And maybe we’ll spend the whole day there!” – Annika added.

Just that morning, Pippi was getting ready to bake some flatbread. She kneaded a lot of dough and began to roll it out right on the floor.

The trilogy about the adventures of Pippi Longstocking was created by Astrid Lindgren from 1945 to 1948. The incredible story about a girl with red pigtails brought the writer world fame. Today her Peppilotta is one of the most recognizable characters in world culture. The story about Pippi simply could not be bad, because initially it was invented for the person most dear to her - her daughter.

Part one: Pippi arrives at the Chicken Villa

The life of the children of one small Swedish town was calm and measured. On weekdays they went to school, on weekends they walked in the yard, fell asleep in their warm beds and obeyed mom and dad. This is how Tommy and Annika Settergren lived. But sometimes, playing in their garden, they still sadly dreamed of friends. “What a pity,” Annika sighed, “that no one lives in the house next door.” “It would be great,” agreed Tommy, “if children could live there.”

One fine day, the dream of the young Settergrens came true. A very unusual tenant appeared in the house opposite - a nine-year-old girl named Pippi Longstocking.

Pippi was very an unusual child. Firstly, she came to the town alone. She had only a nameless horse and a monkey, Mr. Nilsson, for company. Pippi's mother died many years ago, her father - Ephraim Longstocking - a former navigator, Thunder of the Seas - went missing during a shipwreck, but Pippi is convinced that he reigns on some black island. Pippi's full name is Peppilotta Viktualia Rolgardina Crisminta Ephraimsdotter, until she was nine years old she traveled with her father across the seas, and now she has decided to settle in the Chicken Villa.

When leaving the ship, Pippi took nothing except two things - Mr. Nilsson's monkey and a box of gold. Oh yes! Pippi has enormous physical strength - so the girl carried the heavy box playfully. When Pippi's thin figure moved away, the entire ship's crew almost cried, but the proud little girl did not turn around. She turned the corner, quickly wiped away a tear and went to buy a horse.

When Tommy and Annika saw Pippi for the first time, they were very surprised. She was not at all like the other girls in the town - carrot-colored hair braided in tight sticking braids, a freckled nose, a homemade dress sewn from red and green scraps, high stockings (one black, the other brown - whichever ones were found) and black shoes in several sizes more (as Pippi later explained, her father bought them for growth).

The brother and sister encountered Pippi when she, as usual, walked backwards. To the question “why are you backing away?” The red-haired girl authoritatively declared that she had recently sailed from Egypt, and everyone there was doing nothing but backing away. And it's not scary yet! When she was in India, in order to not stand out from the crowd, she had to walk on her hands.

Tommy and Annika did not believe the stranger and caught her in a lie. Pippi was not offended and honestly admitted that she had lied a little: “Sometimes I start to forget what happened and what didn’t happen. And how can you demand that a little girl whose mother is an angel in heaven and whose father is a black king speak only the truth... So if I ever accidentally lie to you, you shouldn’t be angry with me.” Tommy and Annika were quite satisfied with the answer. Thus began their amazing friendship with Pippi Longstocking.

That same day, the guys visited their new neighbor for the first time. What surprised them most was that Pippi lives alone. “Who tells you in the evenings to go to bed?” – the guys were perplexed. “I tell myself this myself,” answered Peppilotta. At first I speak kindly, but if I don’t listen, I repeat more strictly. If this doesn’t help, then it’s a big deal for me!

Hospitable Pippi bakes pancakes for the children. She throws the eggs high into the air, two fall into the frying pan, and one breaks right on Longstocking's red hair. The girl immediately comes up with a story that raw eggs are very good for hair growth. In Brazil, it is law to smash eggs on your head. All bald people (that is, those who eat eggs and do not smear them on their heads) are taken to the police station in a police car.

The next day, Tommy and Annika got up early. They couldn't wait to meet their unusual neighbor. They found Pippi baking cakes. After the housework was completed, their stomachs were full, and the kitchen was completely dirty with flour, the guys went for a walk. Pippi told her brother and sister about her favorite hobby, which quite possibly will develop into a lifelong endeavor. Pippi has been a bookmaker for many years now. People throw away, lose, forget a lot of useful things - Longstocking patiently explained - the task of the dealer is to find these things and find a worthy use for them.

Showing off her skills, Pippi first finds a magnificent jar that, if handled correctly, can become a Gingerbread Jar, and then an empty spool. It was decided to hang the latter on a string and wear it as a necklace.

Tommy and Annika were not as lucky as Pippi, but she advised them to look into the old hollow and under the stump. What miracles! In the hollow, Tommy found a stunning notebook with a silver pencil, and Annika was lucky enough to find an amazingly beautiful box under a tree stump with multi-colored snails on the lid. Returning home, the children were firmly convinced that in the future they would become dealers.

Pippi's life in the town was getting better. Little by little she established contacts with local residents: she beat off the yard boys who were hurting the little girl, fooled the police who came to take her to Orphanage, threw two thieves onto a closet, and then forced them to dance the twist all night.

However, at nine, Pippi is completely illiterate. Once upon a time, one of her father's sailors tried to teach the girl to write, but she was a bad student. “No, Fridolf,” Peppilotta usually said, “I’d rather climb the mast or play with the ship’s cat than learn this stupid grammar.”

And now young Peppilotta has absolutely no desire to go to school, but the fact that everyone will have holidays, but she will not, really hurt Peppi, so she went to class. The educational process did not occupy the young rebel for long, and therefore Pippi had to part with school. As a farewell gift, she gave the teacher a golden bell and returned to her usual way of life at the Chicken Villa.

Adults did not like Pippi, and Tommy and Annika's parents were no exception. They believed that the new neighbor had a negative influence on the children. They constantly get into trouble with Pippi, wander around from morning to night and return dirty and grimy. And what can we say about the disgusting manners of this young lady. During dinner at the Settergrens', to which Pippi was invited, she chatted constantly, told tall tales, and ate a whole butter cake without sharing a piece with anyone.

But adults could not stop communicating with Pippi, because for Tommy and Annika she became the real friend they never had.

Part two: the return of Captain Ephroim

Pippi Longstocking lived at the Chicken Villa for a whole year. She was practically never separated from Tommy and Annika. After school, brother and sister immediately ran to Pippi to do their homework with her. The little mistress did not mind. “Maybe a little learning will come into me. I can’t say that I suffered so much from a lack of knowledge, but maybe you really can’t become a Real Lady if you don’t know how many Hottentots live in Australia.”

Having finished their lessons, the children played games or sat near the stove, baked waffles and apples and listened incredible stories Pippi, what happened to her when she was sailing the seas with her father.

And on weekends there was even more entertainment. You could go shopping (Pippi doesn’t have a lot of money!) and buy a hundred kilos of candy for all the city kids, you could summon a ghost in the attic, or you could go in an old boat to a desert island and spend the whole day there.

One day, Tommy, Annika and Pippi were sitting in the garden of the Chicken Villa and talking about the future. As soon as Longstocking remembered her father, a tall man appeared at the gate. Pippi threw herself on his neck as fast as she could and hung there, swinging her legs. This was Captain Efroim.

After a shipwreck, Ephraim Longstocking actually found himself on a desert island. The locals at first wanted to take him prisoner, but as soon as he uprooted the palm tree, they immediately changed their minds and made him their king. Their hot island is located in the middle of the ocean and is called Veselia. In the first half of the day, Ephroim ruled the island, and in the second he built a boat to return for his beloved Peppilotta.

In the last two weeks he has passed a lot of laws and given a lot of instructions, so this should be enough for the duration of his absence. But there is no need to hesitate - he and Pippi (now a real black princess) need to return to their subjects.

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Astrid Lindgren
Pippi Longstocking (collection)

Pippi Langstrump

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Pippi Långstrump i Söderhavet

Pippi Långstrump © Text: Astrid Lindgren 1945 / Saltkrakan AB

Pippi Långstrump går ombord © Text: Astrid Lindgren 1946 / Saltkrakan AB

Pippi Langstrump i Söderhavet © Text: Astrid Lindgren 1948 / Saltkrakan AB

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How Pippi settled in the Chicken Villa

- Don't be afraid, mom, I won't get lost!

- Goodbye, guys! - said Pippi and kissed each one on the forehead in turn. - Don't be afraid, I won't disappear!

- She left alone... Strange girl... But how can you hold her back! - said the sailor Fridolf when Pippi disappeared around the bend, and wiped away a tear.

- What a pity that no one lives in this house. It would be great if someone with children could live here.

Pippi Longstocking was going for a morning walk. This is what she looked like: her carrot-colored hair was braided into two tight braids that stuck out in different directions; the nose looked like a tiny potato, and besides, it was speckled with freckles; White teeth sparkled in his large, wide mouth. She was wearing a blue dress, but since she apparently didn’t have enough blue material, she sewed red patches into it here and there. She pulled long stockings of different colors onto her very thin and thin legs: one was brown and the other was black. And the huge black shoes seemed about to fall off. Dad bought them for her to grow in South Africa, and Pippi never wanted to wear others.

Pippi walked along the street, stepping on the sidewalk with one foot, and on the pavement with the other. Tommy and Annika kept their eyes on her, but she disappeared around the bend. However, the girl soon returned, but now she was already walking backwards. Moreover, she walked like that only because she was too lazy to turn around when she decided to return home. When she reached Tommy and Annika's gate, she stopped. The children looked at each other in silence for a minute. Finally Tommy said:

- Why are you backing away like a cancer?

- How do you know? – asked Tommy. – You haven’t been to Egypt.

- How?! I have not been to Egypt?! – Pippi was indignant. – So, get it out of your head: I was in Egypt and in general I traveled all over the world and saw plenty of all sorts of miracles. I've seen funnier things than people who back away like crayfish. I wonder what you would say if I walked down the street on my hands, as they do in India?

- He’ll be lying! - said Tommy.

Pippi thought for a minute.

“That’s right, I’m lying,” she said sadly.

- A complete lie! – Annika confirmed, finally deciding to insert a word.

“Yeah, it’s a complete lie,” Pippi agreed, becoming more and more sad. “But sometimes I start to forget what happened and what didn’t happen.” And how can you demand that a little girl, whose mother is an angel in heaven, and whose father is a black king on an island in the ocean, always speaks only the truth? And besides,” she added, and her whole freckled little face shone, “in the whole Belgian Congo there is not a person who would say at least one truthful word.” Everyone lies there all day long. They lie from seven in the morning until sunset. So if I ever accidentally lie to you, you shouldn't be mad at me. I lived in this same Belgian Congo for a very long time. But we can still make friends! Right?

- Still would! - Tommy exclaimed and suddenly realized that this day would certainly not be called boring.

“Why don’t you, for example, come and have breakfast with me now?” – asked Pippi.

“Really,” said Tommy, “why don’t we do that?” Went!

- That's great! – Annika screamed. - Let's go quickly! Let's go!

“But first I must introduce you to Mr. Nilsson,” Pippi realized.

At these words, the little monkey took off his hat and bowed politely.

- Listen, why is your horse standing on the terrace? – Tommy was amazed. All the horses he had ever seen lived in stables.

“You see,” Pippi began thoughtfully, “in the kitchen she would only get in the way, and in the living room she would be uncomfortable - there is too much furniture there.”

Tommy and Annika looked at the horse and entered the house. In addition to the kitchen, there were two more rooms in the house - a bedroom and a living room. But, apparently, Pippi didn’t even remember about cleaning for a whole week. Tommy and Annika looked around cautiously to see if the Negro king was sitting in some corner. After all, they had never seen a black king in their lives. But the children found no signs of either dad or mom.

– Do you live here all alone? – Annika asked with fear.

- Of course not! There are three of us living: Mr. Nilsson, the horse and me.

- And you have neither a father nor a mother?

- Well, yes! – Pippi exclaimed joyfully.

– Who tells you in the evenings: “It’s time to go to bed”?

Tommy and Annika couldn't understand it, but then they thought that maybe it wasn't so bad.

The children entered the kitchen and Pippi sang:

Get the frying pan on the stove!
We will bake pancakes.
There is flour, and salt, and butter,
We'll be eating soon!

“I’ve always been told that eggs are very good for hair,” she said, rubbing her eyes. – You will now see how quickly my hair will begin to grow. Hear, they are already creaking. In Brazil, no one goes out into the street without thickly smearing egg on their head. I remember there was one old man there, so stupid, he ate all the eggs instead of pouring them on his head. And he became so bald that when he left the house, there was a real commotion in the city, and police cars with loudspeakers had to be called in to restore order...

- Eat! - she shouted. - Eat quickly before it gets cold.

There were rare bird eggs, outlandish shells and colorful sea pebbles. There were also carved boxes, elegant mirrors in silver frames, beads and many other little things that Pippi and her father bought during their travels around the world. Pippi immediately wanted to give her new friends something to remember. Tommy received a dagger with a mother-of-pearl handle, and Annika received a box with many, many snails carved on the lid. In the box there was a ring with a green stone.

“Now take your gifts and go home,” Pippi suddenly said. “After all, if you don’t leave here, you won’t be able to come to me again tomorrow.” And that would be a great pity.

Tommy and Annika were of the same opinion and went home. They walked past the horse, which had already eaten all the oats, and ran out through the garden gate. Mister Nilsson waved his hat at them in farewell.

How Pippi gets into a fight

The next morning Annika woke up very early. She quickly jumped out of bed and crept up to her brother.

“Wake up, Tommy,” she whispered and shook his hand. - Wake up, let's quickly go to that strange girl in big shoes.

Tommy woke up immediately.

“You know, even in my dreams I felt that something very interesting was waiting for us today, although I didn’t remember what exactly,” he said, taking off his pajama jacket.

-What are you going to do this early? - Mom asked. – Why are you in such a hurry?

“We are going to the girl who has settled in the neighboring house,” Tommy answered.

“And maybe we’ll spend the whole day there!” – Annika added.

Just that morning, Pippi was getting ready to bake some flatbread. She kneaded a lot of dough and began to roll it out right on the floor.

“I think, Mr. Nilsson,” Pippi turned to the monkey, “that it’s not worth taking on the dough if you’re going to bake less than half a thousand flatbreads.”

And, stretching out on the floor, she again began to work with fervor with the rolling pin.

“Come on, Mr. Nilsson, stop fiddling with the dough,” she said with irritation, and at that moment the bell rang.

Pippi, covered in flour, like a miller, jumped up from the floor and rushed to open it. When she warmly shook hands with Tommy and Annika, a cloud of agony enveloped them all.

“How kind of you to stop by,” she said and pulled down her apron, causing a new flour cloud to rise.

Tommy and Annika even coughed - they had swallowed so much flour.

- What are you doing? – asked Tommy.

“If I tell you that I’m cleaning a pipe, you still won’t believe me, because you’re such a cunning person,” answered Pippi. - Of course, I’m baking flatbreads. This will become even clearer soon. In the meantime, sit down on this chest.

And she took up the rolling pin again.

Tommy and Annika sat on the chest and watched, as if in a movie, how Pippi rolled out the dough on the floor, how she threw the cakes onto the baking sheets and how she put the baking sheets into the oven.

- All! - Pippi finally exclaimed and slammed the oven door, pushing the last baking sheet into it.

– What are we going to do now? – Tommy asked.

– I don’t know what you are going to do. In any case, I won’t be idle. I’m a dealer... And a dealer doesn’t have a single free minute.

- Who are you? – Annika asked.

- Dillector!

– What does “dealer” mean? – asked Tommy.

– A dillector is someone who always puts everything in order. “Everyone knows that,” said Pippi, sweeping the remaining flour on the floor into a pile. - After all, there is an abyss of all sorts of different things scattered on the earth. Someone must keep order. This is what a dealer does!

- The abyss of what things? – Annika asked.

“Yes, very different,” Pippi explained. - And gold bars, and ostrich feathers, and dead rats, and multi-colored candies, and small nuts, and all sorts of others.

Tommy and Annika decided that tidying up was a very pleasant activity, and they also wanted to become dealers. Moreover, Tommy said that he hoped to find a gold bar, and not a small nut.

“Let's see how lucky we are,” said Pippi. – You always find something. But we need to hurry. And then, just behold, all sorts of other dealers will come running and steal all the gold bars that are lying around in these places.

And the three lecturers immediately set off. They decided first of all to put things in order near the houses, since Pippi said that the best things are always lying around near human habitation, although sometimes it happens to find a nut in the thicket of the forest.

“As a rule, this is true,” Pippi explained, “but it also happens differently.” I remember once, during one trip, I decided to restore order in the jungle on the island of Borneo, and do you know what I found in the thicket itself, where no human had ever set foot? Do you know what I found there?.. A real artificial leg, and a completely new one at that. I later gave it to a one-legged old man, and he said that he couldn’t buy such a beautiful piece of wood for any money.

Tommy and Annika looked at Pippi with all their eyes to learn to behave like real dealers. And Pippi rushed along the street from sidewalk to sidewalk, every now and then putting the visor of her palm to her eyes to see better, and searched tirelessly. Suddenly she knelt down and stuck her hand between the fence slats.

“It’s strange,” she said disappointedly, “it seemed to me that a gold bar sparkled here.”

– Is it true that you can take everything you find for yourself? – Annika asked.

“Well, yes, everything that lies on the ground,” Pippi confirmed.

On the lawn in front of the house, right on the grass, an elderly gentleman was lying and sleeping.

- Look! - Pippi exclaimed. “He’s lying on the ground, and we found him.” Let's take him!

Tommy and Annika were seriously scared.

“No, no, Pippi, what are you... You can’t take him away... It’s impossible,” said Tommy. - And what would we do with him?

– What would they do with him? – asked Pippi. - Yes, he can be useful for a lot of things. You can put him, for example, in a rabbit cage and feed him dandelion leaves... Well, if you don’t want to take him, fine, let him lie there. It’s just a shame that other dealers will come and pick up this guy.

“But now I’ve actually found something!” – and pointed to a rusty tin can lying in the grass. - What a find! Wow! This jar will always come in handy.

Tommy looked at the jar with confusion.

– What will it be useful for? - he asked.

- Whatever you want! - Pippi answered. - Firstly, you can put gingerbreads in it, and then it will turn into a wonderful Jar-of-gingerbreads. Secondly, you don’t have to put gingerbread in it. And then it will be a Jar-without-gingerbread and, of course, will not be so beautiful, but still, not everyone comes across such jars, that’s for sure.

Pippi carefully examined the rusty jar she found, which also turned out to be full of holes, and, after thinking, said:

– But this jar is more like a Jar-without-gingerbread. You can also put it on your head. Like this! Look, she covered my entire face. How dark it became! Now I will play into the night. How interesting!

With a can on her head, Pippi began to run back and forth along the street until she sprawled on the ground, tripping over a piece of wire. The can rolled into the ditch with a crash.

“You see,” said Pippi, picking up the can, “if I hadn’t had this thing on me, I would have bloodied my nose.”

“And I think,” Annika noted, “that if you hadn’t put the jar on your head, you would never have tripped over that wire...”

But Pippi interrupted her with a jubilant cry: she saw an empty spool on the road.

- How lucky I am today! What a happy day! - she exclaimed. - What a small, small reel! Do you know how great it is to blow soap bubbles from it! And if you thread a string through the hole, then this reel can be worn around your neck like a necklace. So, I went home to get some rope.

Just at that moment, the gate in the fence surrounding one of the houses opened, and a girl ran out into the street. She looked extremely frightened, and this is not surprising - five boys were chasing her. The boys surrounded her and pressed her against the fence. They had a very advantageous position for attack. All five immediately took a boxing stance and began to hit the girl. She began to cry and raised her hands to protect her face.

- Hit her, guys! - shouted the largest and strongest of the boys. – So that she doesn’t show her nose on our street again.

- Oh! – Annika exclaimed. - But they’re the ones beating Ville! Ugly boys!

“That big one over there is called Bengt,” said Tommy. - He always fights. Nasty guy. And five of them attacked one girl!

Pippi walked up to the boys and poked Bengt in the back with her index finger.

– Hey, listen, there is an opinion that if you fight with little Ville, it’s still better to do it one on one, and not to attack with five of you.

Bengt turned around and saw a girl he had never met here before. Yes, yes, a completely unfamiliar girl, and even one who dared to touch him with her finger! For a moment he froze in amazement, and then his face broke into a mocking smile.

– Hey guys, come on over to Ville and look at this scarecrow! - He pointed to Pippi. - That's how kikimora!

He literally doubled over with laughter; he laughed, resting his palms on his knees. All the boys immediately surrounded Pippi, and Ville, wiping away her tears, quietly stepped aside and stood next to Tommy.

- No, just look at her hair! – Bengt did not let up. - Red as fire. And the shoes, the shoes! Hey, lend me one - I was just about to go boating, but didn’t know where to get one!

He grabbed Pippi by the braid, but immediately pulled his hand away with a feigned grimace:

- Oh, oh, I got burned!

And all five boys began jumping around Pippi and yelling in different voices:

- Redhead! Redhead!

And Pippi stood in the ring of raging children and laughed merrily.

Bengt hoped that the girl would get angry, or even better, cry; and I certainly did not expect that she would look at them calmly and even friendly. Making sure that words wouldn’t get her through, Bengt pushed Pippi.

“I can’t say that you treat ladies politely,” Pippi remarked and, grabbing Bengt with her strong hands, she threw him into the air so high that he hung on the branch of a birch tree growing nearby. Then she grabbed the other boy and threw him onto another branch. She threw the third one at the gate of the villa. The fourth one was thrown over the fence straight into the flowerbed. And the last one, the fifth one, she squeezed into a toy stroller standing on the road. Pippi, Tommy, Annika and Ville silently looked at the boys, who were apparently speechless from amazement.

- Hey you cowards! – Pippi finally exclaimed. – Five of you attack one girl – that’s meanness! And then you pull the braid and push another little, defenseless girl... Ugh, how disgusting you are... It's a shame! Well, let’s go home,” she said, turning to Tommy and Annika. – And if they dare to even lay a finger on you, Ville, you tell me.

Pippi looked up at Bengt, who was still hanging on the branch, afraid to move, and said:

“Maybe you want to say something else about the color of my hair or the size of my shoes, go ahead and talk while I’m here.”

But Bengt lost all desire to speak out on any topic. Pippi waited a little, then took a tin can in one hand, a spool in the other, and left, accompanied by Tommy and Annika.

When the children returned to Pippi's garden, she said:

“My dears, I’m so annoyed: I found two such wonderful things, and you found nothing.” You have to search a little more. Tommy, why don't you look into the hollow of that old tree over there? Speakers should not pass by such trees.

Tommy said that neither he nor Annika would find anything good anyway, but since Pippi asks him to look, he is ready. And he stuck his hand into the hollow.

- Oh! - he exclaimed in amazement and pulled out from the hollow a small notebook bound in leather with a silver pencil. - Strange! – Tommy said, examining his find.

- Here you see! I told you that there is no better job in the world than being a lecturer, and I just can’t imagine why so few people choose this profession. There are as many carpenters and chimney sweeps as you want, but go look for dealers.

Then Pippi turned to Annika:

- Why don’t you rummage under this stump! You often find the most wonderful things under old tree stumps.

Annika listened to Pippi's advice, and immediately a red coral necklace was in her hands. The brother and sister even opened their mouths in surprise and decided that from now on they would always be dealers.

Suddenly Pippi remembered that she only went to bed this morning because she had been playing with a ball and she immediately wanted to sleep.

“Please come with me and cover me well, and tuck me a blanket.”

When Pippi, sitting on the edge of the bed, began to take off her shoes, she said thoughtfully:

“This Bengt wanted to go boating.” The rider has also been found! – she snorted with contempt. - I'll teach him a lesson another time.

“Listen, Pippi,” Tommy asked politely, “why do you have such huge shoes?”

– Of course – for convenience. What else is it for? - Pippi said and lay down. She always slept with her feet on the pillow and her head under the blanket.

“In Guatemala, absolutely everyone sleeps this way, and I believe that this is the only correct and reasonable way to sleep.” So much more convenient. Do you really fall asleep without a lullaby? For example, I definitely have to sing a lullaby to myself, otherwise my eyes won’t close.

And a second later, Tommy and Annika heard something from under the blanket strange noises. It was Pippi who sang a lullaby to herself. Then, so as not to disturb her, they tiptoed towards the exit. At the door they turned around and looked at the bed again, but saw only Peppa's legs, which were resting on the pillow. The children went home. Annika, holding her coral beads tightly in her hand, asked:

- Tommy, don’t you think that Pippi deliberately put these things in the hollow and under the stump so that we would find them?

- Why guess! – Tommy answered. – With Pippi you never know what’s what, that’s already clear to me.

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II. How Pippi gets into a fight

Part one: Pippi arrives at the Chicken Villa

Part two: the return of Captain Ephroim

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How Pippi settled in the Chicken Villa

How Pippi gets into a fight

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