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 dad nor a mom, and, frankly, this even has its advantages - no one makes her go to bed 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 a 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 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 at different sides; 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. For very thin and Thin legs she pulled on long stockings of different colors: 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 am I rearing 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, like 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 get a word in too.
“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 entire freckled face shone, “in the whole 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 mom nor dad?
- 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. “Now you will 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...
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 onto 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.
Lindgren Astrid
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 made 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 that'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 very useful 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, 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 prevent them from communicating with Pippi, because for Tommy and Annika she became the real friend they had never had.
Part two: the return of Captain Ephroim
Pippi Longstocking lived at the Villa "Chicken" whole year. She was practically never separated from Tommy and Annika. After school activities 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 down near the stove, baked waffles and apples and listened to the incredible stories of Pippi that happened to her when she sailed 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 Ephraim.
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.
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 dad nor a mother, and, frankly, this even has its advantages - no one makes her go to bed 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. 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 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.
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.
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?
- 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 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, like 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,” agreed Pippi, 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.
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 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”?
– 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. – Now you will 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 onto 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. 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.
Pippi Longstocking
Pippi Longstocking on a German postage stamp
Peppilotta Viktualia Rulgardina Crisminta Ephraimsdotter Longstocking(original name: Pippilotta Viktualia Rullgardina Krusmynta Efraimsdotter Långstrump), better known as Pippi Longstocking is the central character of a series of books by Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren.
Name Pippi was invented by Astrid Lindgren's daughter, Karin. In Swedish she is Pippi Longstocking. Translator Lilianna Lungina decided to change the name in translation Pippi on Pippi due to possible unpleasant semantic connotations original name for native Russian speakers.
Character
Villa "Chicken" - a house that participated in the filming of the Swedish television series about Pippi
Pippi is a little red-haired, freckled girl who lives alone in the “Chicken” villa in a small Swedish town with her animals: Mr. Nilsson the monkey and the horse. Pippi is the daughter of Captain Ephraim Longstocking, who later became the leader of a black tribe. From her father, Pippi inherited a fantastic physical strength, as well as a suitcase with gold, allowing her to exist comfortably. Pippi's mother died when she was still a baby. Pippi is sure that she has become an angel and is looking at her from heaven ( “My mom is an angel, and my dad is a black king. Not every child has such noble parents.”).
Pippi “adopts,” or rather invents, various customs from different countries and parts of the world: when walking, move backwards, walk down the streets upside down, “because your feet are hot when you walk on a volcano, and your hands can be put on mittens.”
Pippi's best friends are Tommy and Annika Söttergren, children of ordinary Swedish citizens. In the company of Pippi, they often get into trouble and funny troubles, and sometimes - real adventures. Attempts by friends or adults to influence the careless Pippi lead nowhere: she does not go to school, is illiterate, familiar, and always makes up tall tales. However, Pippi kind heart and a good sense of humor.
Pippi Longstocking is one of Astrid Lindgren's most fantastic heroines. She is independent and does whatever she wants. For example, she sleeps with her feet on a pillow and her head under the blanket, wears multi-colored stockings when returning home, backs away because she doesn’t want to turn around, rolls out dough right on the floor and keeps a horse on the veranda.
She is incredibly strong and agile, even though she is only nine years old. She carries her own horse in her arms, defeats the famous circus strongman, scatters a whole company of hooligans, breaks off the horns of a ferocious bull, deftly throws out own home two policemen who came to her to forcibly take her to an orphanage, and with lightning speed throws two thugs of thieves who decided to rob her onto the closet. However, there is no cruelty in Pippi's reprisals. She is extremely generous towards her defeated enemies. She treats the disgraced policemen with freshly baked heart-shaped gingerbread cookies. And she generously rewards the embarrassed thieves, who have worked off their invasion of someone else's house by dancing with Pippi the Twist all night, with gold coins, this time honestly earned.
Pippi is not only extremely strong, she is also incredibly rich. It costs her nothing to buy “a hundred kilos of candy” and a whole toy store for all the children in the city, but she herself lives in an old dilapidated house, wears the only dress made from colorful patches, and the only pair of shoes bought for her by her father “for growing up.”
But the most amazing thing about Pippi is her bright and wild imagination, which manifests itself both in the games she comes up with and in amazing stories O different countries, where she visited with her captain dad, and in endless pranks, the victims of which are idiotic adults. Pippi brings any of her stories to the point of absurdity: a mischievous maid bites guests on the legs, a long-eared Chinese man hides under his ears during the rain, and crybaby refuses to eat from May to October. Pippi gets very upset if someone says that she is lying, because lying is not good, she just sometimes forgets about it.
Pippi is a child’s dream of strength and nobility, wealth and generosity, freedom and selflessness. But for some reason the adults don’t understand Pippi. And the pharmacist, and the school teacher, and the circus director, and even Tommy and Annika’s mother are angry with her, teach her, educate her. Apparently this is why Pippi doesn’t want to grow up more than anything else:
“Grown-ups never have fun. They always have a lot of boring work, stupid dresses and cuminal taxes. And they are also stuffed with prejudices and all sorts of nonsense. They think that a terrible misfortune will happen if you put a knife in your mouth while eating, and so on.”
But “who said you need to become an adult?” No one can force Pippi to do what she doesn't want!
Books about Pippi Longstocking are full of optimism and constant faith in the very best.
Tales of Pippi
- Pippi is going on the road (1946)
- Pippi in the Land of Merry (1948)
- Pippi Longstocking is having a Christmas tree (1979)
Film adaptations
- Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump - Sweden, 1969) - television series by Olle Hellbohm. The “Swedish” version of the television series has 13 episodes, the German version has 21 episodes. Starring Inger Nilsson. The television series has been shown in the “German” version on the “Culture” channel since 2004. Film version - 4 films (released in 1969, 1970). Two films - “Pippi Longstocking” and “Pippi in the Land of Taka-Tuka” were shown in the Soviet box office.
- Pippi Longstocking (USSR, 1984) - television two-part feature film.
- The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking - USA, Sweden, 1988
- Pippi Longstocking - Sweden, Germany, Canada, 1997 - cartoon
- Pippi Longstocking - Canada, 1997-1999 - animated series
- “Pippi Longstocking” - filmstrip (USSR, 1971)
Notes
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- Characters from Astrid Lindgren's books
- Movie characters
- TV series characters
- Cartoon characters
- Fictional girls
- Fictional Swedes
- Characters with superpowers
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Pippi Longstocking is a wonderful work by Lingren, which was written more than sixty years ago. It was written for a sick daughter whom the author wanted to entertain. The name of the main character was invented by the girl for whom this work was written. This is how Pippi Longstocking was born. The work consists of three parts. We will write them in chapters to simplify the work of our readers and briefly introduce the plot of the work.
Part 1. Pippi arrives at Villa Chicken
Reading Lingren's Pippi Longstocking briefly chapter by chapter, we are transported to a Swedish town with a moderate life. Children go to school, relax by the lake on weekends, and fall asleep in their cozy beds in the evening. This is how the days passed for the Settergrens, Tommy and Annika. However, the children dreamed that neighbors with children would appear in the house opposite, with whom they would become friends.
And now their dream comes true. A nine-year-old child appears in the house - an unusual girl named Pippi Longstocking. The child was unusual in that he arrived at the villa alone. The girl’s mother died long ago, and her sailor father was shipwrecked and no one saw him again. Pippi was convinced that he was alive and lived on some island. Until that time, she had been traveling with her father, and now, taking her faithful horse and monkey, she decided to stay in the city. As the author writes, this girl had enormous strength, so she could easily carry the box of gold that she took from the ship.
Chapter: First meeting with Pippi
The Settergrens first saw the girl when she was walking backwards. Having asked Pippi why she walked like that, she began to come up with stories about Egypt and its inhabitants who walk exactly like that. But Annika and Tommy caught the heroine in a lie, and Pippi asked them not to be offended, because she often forgets what happened and what didn’t really happen. This is how children's friendship begins.
Already on the first day of acquaintance, the heroine invites her new acquaintances to her home. The children are surprised that such a little girl lives alone. They wonder who makes her sleep. Pippi talks about how she puts herself to bed and how she periodically gets punished by herself for not wanting to sleep.
Then the girl makes pancakes to treat her friends. When she was preparing the dough, she threw the eggs up and one of them broke on Pippi's hair. She immediately came up with a story about Brazil, where breaking an egg on your head was already legal.
Chapter: Pippi gets into a fight
The Settergrens got up early to run to new friend, who was preparing flatbread at that time. After eating and leaving behind a kitchen stained with flour, the children go outside, where Pippi talks about her hobby. She talks about reporting, which she has been doing for many years. It consists of collecting things that people throw away or lose, after which you need to find a use for these things. As an example, the heroine finds a jar in which to store cookies and a spool, which she hangs on a rope around her neck.
While traveling through the streets, Pippi saw five guys mocking a girl, and she came to her defense. Surrounded by five boys who called the heroine red, the girl laughs out loud. The guys were upset, because they thought that she would cry in response to the hurtful words. Then the guy pushed the heroine and a fight ensued, during which the girl easily dealt with the boys.
Her friends also tried to engage in bookkeeping in the garden, but they had no finds. Following Pippi's clues, Annika finds a beautiful box, and Tommy has a notepad and pen. Then main character goes to bed.
Chapter: How Pippi plays tag with the police
There is a rumor going around the city about a girl who lives without her parents. Adults believe that everyone should study and be supervised. They decide to send the girl to an orphanage. The police come to Pippi. They are trying to take the girl with them, and the policeman tried to grab Peppy, but she breaks free, pushing him in the back. So she insulted the man with whom she decided to play tag. The men fail to catch the girl.
She was elusive, and when they resorted to cunning and finally grabbed the child, Pippi dragged the police out the gate, treating them to buns. The police concluded that the child was not suitable for an orphanage.
Chapter: Pippi goes to school
The girl’s friends go to school and they are sad that this time passes without a new friend. They persuade Pippi to study, but the girl did not agree, and only after learning that her friends will have holidays, but she will not, Pippi goes to school. There she was unable to answer a single question asked by the teacher, and soon she realized that she did not want to study. This is how the girl’s studies end.
Chapter: Pippi climbs into the hollow
One day the children were basking in the sun and chewing pears. The villa itself was located in a picturesque location on the outskirts of the city. Residents of the city often came here to take a break from the bustle of the city. An unfamiliar girl is interested in her dad, whom Pippi has not seen. However, she was in her repertoire and got into a conversation with a stranger, to whom she eventually told a made-up story. After that, she ran away without looking back. The children continued to enjoy the wonderful day. And then they decided to climb trees, something the heroine’s neighbors had never done before. And here are the children on the oak tree, where the girl suggested having a tea party. Afterwards the heroine sees a hollow, into which she immediately climbs. She really liked it there and invites her friends to climb. Overcoming their fear, Tommy and Anika also climb into the hollow.
Chapter: How Pippi organized an excursion
It's a sanitary day at school. Hearing about this, the girl started a sanitary day at home, cleaning the kitchen. Afterwards, Longstocking offers to take the monkey and go on an excursion.
The children walked along the highway, then went to the meadow, picked mushrooms and had a picnic. Having eaten, the children rested and suddenly Pippi wanted to learn to fly. Standing on the edge of the hill, she jumps off, scaring her friends. She said she couldn't fly because her belly was full. Then the children notice what is missing. The monkey disappeared. While searching for the monkey, Tommy came across a bull, who threw him on its horns. Pippi comes to the rescue, having killed the animal so much that the bull fell asleep. Having called the monkey and waited for it to come down from the tree, the children go home happy.
Chapter: How Pippi goes to the circus
A circus has come to town. Pippi goes there too. At the box office, a girl buys a ticket for gold coins, so she and her friends get best places. The girl began to watch the show where the horses were performing and when the rider showed a number, Pippi also jumped on the back of the horse. Miss Carmencita tried to throw her off, but the heroine shouted that she had paid for the ticket, so she also had the right to ride. They wanted to kick the girl out of the circus for this prank, but they couldn’t. The tightrope walker began to perform, but Pippi performed much better than her, later than strong man laid it on my shoulder blades.
After that, Pippi called the circus boring, sat down in a chair and fell asleep.
Chapter: Thieves get to Pippi
Thieves break into Pippi's house and want to take away a chest of gold. Having found out where the suitcase was, the thieves took it, but Pippi immediately took it away, tying up the thieves. The thieves began to ask them to have mercy, and the girl invites them to dance a twist. The thieves danced until they were tired, although the girl herself could dance for a long time. Afterwards, Pippi treats them to sandwiches and sends them home, giving them a coin each.
Chapter: Pippi is invited to a cup of tea
The Settergrens' mother bakes pies because noble ladies are coming to see her. She allows the children to call Longstocking. The girl appears dressed up, and the peace of the guests is disturbed by the appearance of Pippi. She behaves ugly at the table, ate the whole pie and took all the sweets, telling different stories. Annika and Tommy’s mother regretted it more than once, and at the end of the evening she couldn’t stand it at all and kicked the girl out, telling her not to come to them anymore. Pippi apologized for her inability to behave and left.
Chapter: How Pippi saves the kids
In this part, the author talks about an incredible adventure. There was a fire in the city and two small children were trapped in the burning house, to whom firefighters could not reach because of the short staircase. Peppa was not at a loss and saved the children, earning the praise of the townspeople.
Chapter: How Pippi celebrates her birthday
Peppiloma invites the Settergren children to his birthday party. Children are happy to go to her for the holiday, giving the birthday girl a music box. Pippi also gave gifts to her friends, and after that everyone played and had fun until late in the evening, hunting ghosts, playing games, until their dad came for the children.
Part 2. Pippi is getting ready to go on the road
This part will tell about various adventures, where Pippi goes shopping and gets hold of a pharmacist; we also learn about how the heroine went to school for a short time, and then went on an excursion with the schoolchildren.
Chapter: Pippi on a school trip
Children go to the forest with their teacher. Pippi is with them. There they play Beast, and after the excursion they go to visit one of the students. On the way, the girl met a man who abused a horse. The girl taught the man a lesson by forcing him to carry the bags himself. At the tea party, Pippi again showed bad manners and then the teacher told her how to behave at a party. The girl listens with interest.
Chapter: Pippi is shipwrecked
Pippi decides to go with her friends to an uninhabited island located on the lake. Having prepared the old boat, the children set off. However, the boat begins to sink and Pippi orders everyone to save themselves. And here are the children on the island. They live like Robinsons. They have fun, they eat and sleep by the fire. But the time comes to return home, because Annika and Tommy's parents will soon arrive home. However, there is no boat. Pippi offers to write a letter and send it in a bottle, and later admits that she took the boat away so that it would not flood, because it was raining. The boys are worried that now they won’t be able to return home before their parents.
The parents arrived and saw a note where the heroine asked not to worry, informing them that their children would be in a small shipwreck.
Chapter: Pippi receives a dear guest
Our heroine has been living in the villa for almost a year and all this time she has been friends with Tommy and Annika. One day, sitting in the garden, the children were talking about life and suddenly Pippi jumped up and threw herself on the neck of a man who appeared at the gate. It was her father - the captain.
As it turned out, he really got caught in a storm that threw him onto the island. The island was called Veselia. There, local residents almost killed the captain, but seeing his strength, they made him king. He also told about how his days passed, where he ruled the island, and then built a ship to go after his daughter. And so, having given many instructions, the man set off. But you can’t hesitate, because you need to get back to your subjects in time.
The children go home upset. Pippi is planning a farewell feast. In the morning, friends go to Pippi. They find out that the girl is really going to leave. As she said that she would return to the villa when she was retired. To say goodbye, the girl throws a farewell feast.
In the morning the girl said goodbye to the villa and went to the port. The neighborhood kids were happy and sad at the same time. They were happy that the girl met her father, but they were sad because their friend would soon leave forever. Already at the port, when Tommy and Annika were seeing Peppa off, the guys burst into tears so much that Peppiloma got off the ship, telling her father that children at her age should not swim, but need a measured life. Pippi stays behind, having received another suitcase of gold from her father.
Part 3. They buy a villa from Pippi
Once a stranger came to the town, saw a villa and wanted to buy it. At the villa he found only children, to whom he began to tell how he would cut trees here and put everything in order, how he would not let anyone else in here. But I couldn’t wait for the owner. Having started a squabble with Peppa, he was kicked out. More a respectable man no one has seen it in the city.
Chapter: Pippi encourages Aunt Laura
Friends do not come to the neighbor and she decides to go to them herself. There she sees the children, their mother and aunt. It was because of the appearance of their aunt in their house that the children stayed at home. Pippi wanted to stay and talk with her aunt. As a result, the girl finds out that her aunt is not feeling well and immediately talks about her grandmother, who had a brick fall on her head, or how she ran into a double bass while dancing tango with her dad. Pippi began to tell stories, but they kept trying to shut her up. And so the heroine, grabbing a cracker, began to leave, and the aunt also got ready to go.
Chapter: Peppa is looking for cucaryamba
Neighboring children came to Pippi, who learned a new word and tried to find this object. It was a cucaryamba. Nobody knew what it was and the children went in search of this item. At first they thought it was something edible, but no one in the store had heard of such a product, just as no one in the hospital had heard of such a disease. And then the children met an unknown beetle. Pippi shouted that this was the cucaryamba.
Chapter: Pippi receives a letter
Autumn has passed, winter has come. Annika and Tommy get measles. A neighbor amuses her friends by putting on performances under her window. With the help of a monkey, the girl delivers fruits and letters. And now the friends are healthy, they are at Peppa’s, eating porridge and listening to stories. And then they bring the girl a letter, where the father says that his daughter should go to him in Veselia, where all the subjects are already looking forward to the princess.
Chapter: Pippi sets sail
And then Captain Ephraim arrived. Everyone met him on the shore. Pippi invited her father to the villa, where she fed him well. While he was sleeping, she got into a conversation with friends, where she dreamed of swimming and an unknown country. The children listened to her with sadness and then the girl announced that she was taking Annika and Tommy with her. The children do not believe this, because their parents will never let them go. However, Longstocking manages to ask them to leave, and now they are all on the ship.
Chapter: Pippi comes ashore
The ship enters Veselia Bay. They are joyfully welcomed by the residents. My father showed the places where he was washed up during a shipwreck, where a monument is now erected. The king-father began to rule, Pippi took a place on the throne and people began to kneel in front of her. But the girl didn’t need it, she only needed the throne to play. Later the children talk about how beautiful the island was.
Chapter: Pippi talks to the shark
Children on the beach, a girl tells locals about life in another country. Everyone listens to her with interest. Later, when the adults went hunting, the children wanted to see the caves. There, Tommy falls into the water and is attacked by a shark, which Pippi lifts above the water and scolds. She swims away in fright. And Tommy cried from fear and pain, because the shark had bitten his leg. Pippi also cried later. Why? Because she felt sorry for the shark that remained hungry.
Chapter: Explanations with Jim and Book
The children continued to the cave, where there were many food supplies. One could live comfortably there for several weeks. From the cave, the children see the steamer on which the sailors Buk and Jim were. These were bandits. They arrived on the island while the adults were away to take the pearls from the children who were playing with the jewelry.
The children watched what was happening. The robbers, seeing the children, began to ask them to give up the pearls, but Pippi told them to climb into the cave themselves. However, they were unable to climb there. The robbers began to wait, because they were sure that the children would leave the cave themselves when they got hungry. Thunderstorm began. Children sleep in a cozy cave, while sailors get wet in the rain.
Chapter: Pippi taught the bandits a lesson
Morning has come. The horse and monkey began to worry about the absence of children and went in search of them. The sailors, seeing the horse, grabbed it and began to threaten that they would kill it. Pippi comes down to give the pearls, but she has nothing in her hands. Book and Jim threaten to kill her too, but the girl, who was very strong, instantly beat them, threw them into the boat and pushed them away from the shore. A few minutes later the ship of the robbers was no longer seen. The sailors no longer appeared on the shores of the mysterious country. At this time, the captain and his subjects returned from hunting. When asked if anything happened in his absence, the girl said that nothing serious happened.
Chapter: Pippi leaves Veselia
It was interesting in Veselia, the children were well tanned, played constantly, wandered through the jungle, admired the waterfall. Days gave way to nights, the rainy season was about to begin, and the father was worried that his daughter would feel bad here. And Annika and Timm began to miss their parents. And now the children return home. And although the wind was fair, they did not have time for Christmas. This upset the children, but they were still happy to be returning home. And now the city is already visible.
Pippi took the children home on horseback, but, contrary to the Settergrens’ offer to stay with them, she went to her villa.
Chapter: Pippi doesn't want to be an adult
The Settergrens were delighted with their children, fed them and put them to bed, and listened to stories for a long time. However, the children were sad that they missed the Christmas tree, gifts, and they were also thinking about their friend, who was now spending the night in a cold house.
In the morning, the children wanted to visit the girl, but the mother did not let them in at first, as she wanted to be with them. But soon she gave in to the persuasion, and the children ran to Peppilome. There they saw a beautiful picture. A snow-covered house, cleared paths, a candle is burning and Pippi invites them to the Christmas holiday, where there was a festive dinner, a Christmas tree stood and gifts were hidden. The girl surprised her friends with this, because the holiday had passed. The characters in the work looked out the window and wondered how the next day they would build a snow house in the yard, on which they would play and have a trampoline. The characters conclude that they don’t want to become adults, because the life of adults is boring and they don’t know how to have fun.
Pippi takes out the peas and calls them anti-aging pills. The children swallow the peas after casting a spell. Brother and sister go home, having agreed to meet their neighbor the next day. At home, they looked out the window and saw a friend sitting at the table with her arms crossed and her head resting on them. The children were happy that Pippi lived in the neighboring house and would always live there. Years will pass, and they will not grow up, unless of course the pills are real. They thought about how they would build a house, how they would climb a tree, how they would go to Veselia, and then always return home. The children thought that if Pippi looked out the window now, they would definitely wave to her. But the girl peered into the candle flame with sleepy eyes, and then blew out the fire.
This concludes the amazing story about a girl named Pippi Longstocking in our brief summary.
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