The book by writer Astrid Lindgren “Pippi Longstocking” tells about the unusual life of a little mischievous girl. Many children like this book because its main character is very free, and who among the children does not dream of doing whatever they want. The book gives you the opportunity to dream, remember your childhood, the time when everything was easy and simple.
Pippi is a girl from a small Swedish town. She lives without parents because her mother died when Pippi was still very little, and the girl’s father, for objective reasons, cannot take care of her, since he makes long voyages. But Pippi has a lot, a lot of money so that she can live comfortably, and remarkable strength that helps her defend herself if necessary.
All the children admire Pippi’s enthusiasm and originality, because next to her life is filled with real adventures, and no one can forbid Pippi anything. If she wants, she can walk upside down, buy as many sweets as she wants for all the children, punish the thieves and stand up for herself when the police come to the house with good intentions of sending her to prison. Orphanage. She is constantly cheerful and optimistic, and composes various stories that are striking in their absurdity. And Pippi also doesn’t understand adults who are always puzzled by some questions, solve problems, walk around gloomy and dissatisfied with everything. She always wants to live a fun life, so she doesn't want to become too old. Pippi is good-natured and sweet, she is mischievous and unpredictable, so all children want to make friends with her, and reading the story about this wonderful girl with a wild imagination is very interesting.
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PEPPIE STAYS INTO HER VILLA
On the outskirts of a very small Swedish town there was an old, neglected garden. There was an old house in this garden. Pippi Longstocking lived in this house. She was nine years old, and, imagine, she lived there all alone. She had neither a father nor a mother, but, frankly, this had its advantages: no one forced her to sleep just at the time when the game was best, and no one forced her to drink fish oil when she wanted to eat candy.
Before, Pippi had a father, and she loved him very much. Of course, she also once had a mother, but Pippi no longer remembered 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 thought that her mother now lived in heaven and through a small hole looked at her daughter from there. Therefore, Pippi often waved her hand and said every time:
- Don't be afraid, I won't disappear!
But Pippi remembered her father very well. He was a sea captain, and his ship plied the seas and oceans. Pippi was never separated from her father. But 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 lived, became their king and walked around every day with a golden crown on his head.
- My dad is a black king! Not every girl has such an amazing dad,” Pippi often repeated with visible pleasure. “And when my 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 was going to settle here with Pippi when he grew old and could no longer sail the seas. But after dad disappeared into the sea, Pippi went straight to her villa to wait for his return. There was furniture in the rooms, and 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 loved Pippi so much, and Pippi loved them all so much.
“Goodbye, guys,” Pippi said 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. Nielsen - she received it as a gift from her dad - and a large suitcase filled with gold coins. The sailors lined up on the deck and looked after the girl until she disappeared from sight. Pippi walked with a firm step and never looked back. Mr. Nielsen was sitting on her shoulder, and she was carrying a suitcase in her hand.
“Strange girl,” said one of the sailors when Pippi disappeared around the bend, and wiped away a tear.
He was right, Pippi really was a strange girl. What struck her most was her extraordinary physical strength, and there was no policeman on earth to deal with it. She could lift a horse if she wanted, and, you know, she did it often. After all, Pippi had a horse, which she bought on the very day she moved into the villa. Pippi always dreamed of having a horse. The horse lived on her terrace. And when Pippi wanted to have a cup of coffee there after lunch, she, without thinking twice, took the horse out into the garden.
Next door to the villa there was another house, also surrounded by a garden. In this house lived a father, a mother and two cute little children - a boy and a girl. The boy's name was Tommy, and the girl's name was Anika. They were nice, well-mannered and obedient children. Tommy never begged anyone for anything and carried out all his mother’s instructions. Anika didn’t get capricious when she didn’t get what she wanted, and she always looked so smart in her clean, neatly ironed cotton dresses. Tommy and Anika played together in their garden, but still they lacked a playmate, and they dreamed of him. At a time when Pippi was still sailing with her father on the ship, Tommy and Anika sometimes climbed onto the fence separating the villa’s garden from theirs and said:
- What a pity that no one lives in this house! It would be nice if someone with children could live here!
On that clear summer evening when Pippi first crossed the threshold of her villa, Tommy and Anika were not at home. They went to stay with their grandmother for a week. Therefore, they had no idea that someone had moved into the neighboring house. The next day after returning from their grandmother, they stood at the gate and looked at the street, not yet knowing that a playmate was so close to them. And just at that moment when they were discussing what they should do, and did not know whether they would be able to start any fun game, or the day will pass tediously, as always, when you can’t come up with anything interesting, just at that moment the gate of the neighboring house opened and a little girl ran out into the street. This was the most amazing girl Tommy and Anika had ever seen.
Pippi Longstocking went for a morning walk. And this is what she looked like: her carrot-colored hair was braided into two tight braids that stuck out in different sides; the nose looked like a tiny potato, and besides, it was all speckled with freckles; White teeth sparkled in his large, wide mouth. She wanted her dress to be blue, but since she didn’t have enough blue material, she sewed red scraps into it here and there. On her thin, thin legs were long stockings, one brown and the other black. And her black shoes were twice too big. Dad bought them in South Africa for growing up, and Pippi never wanted to wear other shoes.
But when Tommy and Anika saw a monkey sitting on the shoulder of an unfamiliar girl, they simply froze in amazement. It was a little monkey, dressed in blue trousers, a yellow jacket and a white straw hat.
This is where Pippi met Tommy and Anika. Many funny stories happened to them. You will learn about some of their adventures in the following chapters.
PEPPIE PLAYS TAG WITH THE POLICE OFFICERS
Soon a rumor spread in a small town that a nine-year-old girl was living completely alone in an abandoned villa. And the adults of this town said that this could not continue. All children should have someone to raise them. All children must go to school and learn their multiplication tables. Therefore, the adults decided that this little girl should be sent to an orphanage. One afternoon, Pippi invited Tommy and Anika to her place for coffee and pancakes. She placed the cups right on the steps of the terrace. It was so sunny there, and the scent of flowers came from the flower beds. Mr. Nielsen climbed up and down the balustrade, and the horse pulled his muzzle from time to time to get a pancake.
– How wonderful life is! – said Pippi and stretched her legs.
Just at that moment the gate swung open and two policemen entered the garden.
- Ah! - Pippi exclaimed. -What a happy day! I love police officers more than anything in the world, apart from rhubarb cream, of course.
– And she moved towards the police, beaming with a happy smile.
– Are you the same girl who settled in this villa? – asked one of the policemen.
“But no,” answered Pippi. “I’m a little old lady and I live on the third floor in one of the houses on the other side of the city.
Pippi answered this way because she wanted to joke. But the police did not find this joke funny, they sternly told her to stop fooling around, and then informed her that good people decided to give her a place in an orphanage.
“And I already live in an orphanage,” Pippi answered.
– What kind of nonsense are you talking about! - the policeman cried. – Where is it located, your orphanage?
- Yes, right here. I am a child and this is my home. So this is an orphanage. And, as you can see, there is quite enough space here.
“Oh, dear girl, you don’t understand this,” said another policeman and laughed. – You must go to a real orphanage where you will be raised.
– Can you take a horse with you to that orphanage?
- Of course not! - the policeman answered.
“That’s what I thought,” Pippi said gloomily. - Well, what about the monkey?
- And you can’t have a monkey.
You understand this yourself.
- In that case, let others go to the orphanage, I’m not going there!
- But you need to go to school.
– Why should I go to school?
– To learn different things.
– What kind of things are these? – Pippi did not let up.
- Well, very different.
All sorts of things useful things. For example, the multiplication table.
“I’ve been doing well without this table of respect for nine whole years now,” Pippi answered, “which means I’ll continue to live without it.”
- Well, think how unpleasant it will be for you if you remain such a know-nothing for the rest of your life! Imagine, you grow up big, and suddenly someone asks you the name of the capital of Portugal. And you won't be able to answer.
- Why can’t I answer? I’ll tell him this: “If you really need to know what the main city of Portugal is, then write directly to Portugal, let them explain it to you.” 
“And you won’t be ashamed that you couldn’t answer yourself?”
“Perhaps,” said Pippi. “And I won’t be able to fall asleep for a long time that evening, I’ll just lie there and remember: well, really, what is the name of the main city of Portugal?” But I will soon be consoled,” here Pippi did a stand, walked on her hands and added, “because I was in Lisbon with dad.”
Then the first policeman intervened and said that Pippi should not imagine that she could do as she wanted, that she was ordered to go to an orphanage, and there was no more need to talk in vain. And he grabbed her hand. But Pippi immediately broke free and, lightly slapping the policeman on the back, shouted:
- I insulted you! Now you drive!
And before he had time to come to his senses, she jumped onto the balustrade of the terrace, and from there quickly climbed onto the second floor balcony.
The police did not at all want to climb up in this way. So they both rushed into the house and went up the stairs. But when they found themselves on the balcony, Pippi was already sitting on the roof. She climbed the tiles so deftly as if she were a monkey. In an instant, she found herself on the ridge of the roof, and from there she jumped onto the pipe.
The police sat on the balcony and scratched their heads in confusion. Tommy and Anika watched Pippi enthusiastically from the lawn.
- How fun it is to play tag! – Pippi shouted to the police. “How nice of you to come and play with me.”
After thinking for a minute, the police went to get a ladder, leaned it against the house, and one after another began to climb onto the roof. Slipping on the tiles and having difficulty balancing, they moved towards Pippi.
- Be brave! - Pippi shouted to them.
But when the police almost crawled to Pippi, she, laughing and squealing, quickly jumped off the pipe and moved to another slope of the roof. On this side, next to the house, there was a tree.
- Look, I'm falling! - Pippi shouted and, jumping from the ledge, hung on a branch, swung on it once or twice, and then deftly slid down the trunk. Finding herself on the ground, Pippi ran around the other side of the house and set aside the ladder, along which the police climbed to the roof. The police got scared when Pippi jumped onto a tree. But they were simply horrified when they saw that the girl had carried away the ladder. Having become completely furious, they began to shout vying with each other for Pippi to immediately put the ladder in place, otherwise they would not talk to her like that.
- Why are you angry? – Pippi asked them reproachfully. “We’re playing tag, so why get angry in vain?”
The police were silent for a while, and finally one of them said embarrassedly:
“Listen, girl, be so kind as to put the ladder back so we can go down.”
“With pleasure,” Pippi answered and immediately put the ladder up to the roof. “And then, if you want, we’ll have some coffee and generally have some fun together.” 
But the police turned out to be treacherous people. As soon as they stepped on the ground, they rushed to Pippi, grabbed her and shouted:
“Now you’re caught, you bad girl!”
“And now I don’t play with you anymore,” Pippi answered. – Those who cheat in the game, I don’t mess with. “And, grabbing both policemen by the belts, she dragged them out of the garden and into the street. There she released them. But the police could not come to their senses for a long time.
- One minute! – Pippi shouted to them and rushed as fast as she could into the kitchen. Soon she reappeared, holding a pancake in her hands. – Try it, please! True, they were a little burnt, but that doesn’t matter.
Then Pippi walked up to Tommy and Anika, who stood with their eyes wide open and just amazed. And the police hurried back to the city and told those people who sent them that Pippi was not suitable for orphanage. The police, of course, concealed the fact that they were sitting on the roof. And the adults decided: if so, let this girl live in her own villa. The main thing is that she goes to school, but otherwise she is free to manage herself.
As for Pippi, Tommy and Anika, they had a great time that day. First they finished their coffee, and Pippi, having successfully finished fourteen pancakes, said:
– Still, these were some fake policemen: they were chatting something about an orphanage, about a table of respect and about Lisbon...
Then Pippi took the horse from the terrace into the garden, and the children began to ride. True, Anika was initially afraid of the horse. But when she saw how merrily Tommy and Pippi were jumping around the garden, she also decided. Pippi deftly sat her down, the horse ran along the path, and Tommy sang at the top of his lungs:
The Swedes are rushing thundering,
The fight will be hot!
In the evening, when Tommy and Anika lay down in their beds, Tommy said:
“But it’s great that Pippi came here to live.” Right, Anika?
- Well, of course, great!
– You know, I don’t even remember what we actually played before?
“We played croquet and stuff like that.” But how much more fun it is with Pippi!.. And then there’s a horse and a monkey! A?..
PEPPY GOES TO SCHOOL
Of course, both Tommy and Anika went to school. Every morning at exactly eight, holding hands, with textbooks in their bags, they hit the road.
It was precisely at this time that Pippi loved most of all to ride a horse, or dress up Mr. Nielsen, or do exercises, which consisted of standing straight on the floor, forty-three times in a row, without bending, as if she had swallowed a yard, she jumped up on place. Then Pippi sat down at the kitchen table and, in complete peace, drank a large cup of coffee and ate several cheese sandwiches.
Walking past the villa, Tommy and Anika looked longingly over the fence. They would much rather turn around now and spend the whole day with their new girlfriend! Now, if Pippi also went to school, it would at least not be so offensive.
- How fun it would be for us to return home, eh, Pippi? – Tommy once said.
“We would also go to school together,” Anika added.
The more the guys thought about Pippi not going to school, the sadder their hearts became. And in the end they decided to try to persuade her to go there with them.
“You can’t even imagine what a wonderful teacher we have,” Tommy said one day, looking slyly at Pippi. He and Anika came running to her after doing their homework.
– You don’t know how much fun we have at school! – Anika picked up, “if I wasn’t allowed to go to school, I would simply go crazy.”
Pippi, sitting on a low bench, washed her feet in a huge basin. She didn’t say anything in response and just started splashing so much that she splashed almost all the water around.
“And you don’t have to sit there for long, only until two o’clock,” Tommy began again.
“Of course,” Anika continued in his tone. - And besides, there are holidays. Christmas, Easter, summer... 
Pippi thought about it, but was still silent. Suddenly she decisively poured the remaining water from the basin directly onto the floor, so that it wet Mr. Nielsen’s pants, who, sitting on the floor, was playing with the mirror.
“This is unfair,” Pippi said sternly, not paying the slightest attention to Mr. Nielsen’s anger or his water-soaked pants, “this is completely unfair, and I will not put up with it!”
- What's unfair? – Tommy was surprised.
- In four months it will be Christmas, and your Christmas holidays will begin. What will happen to me? – Pippi’s voice sounded sad. “I won’t have any Christmas holidays, not even the small ones,” she continued pitifully. – This needs to be changed. I'll go to school tomorrow.
Tommy and Anika clapped their hands in joy.
- Hooray! Hooray! So we will be at our gates at eight o'clock sharp.
“No,” said Pippi. - It's too early for me. Besides, I'll go there on horseback.
No sooner said than done. At exactly ten o'clock in the morning, Pippi took her horse off the terrace, took it out into the garden and set off. A few minutes later, all the inhabitants of this town rushed to the windows to look at the little girl who was carried by a mad horse. In reality, everything was not like that. Pippi was just in a hurry to go to school. She galloped into the school yard, jumped to the ground, and tied the horse to a tree. Then the classroom door opened with such a bang that Tommy, Anika and their comrades jumped in their seats in surprise, and shouted at the top of her lungs: “Hello!” – waving his wide-brimmed hat.
– I hope I’m not late for the respect table?
Tommy and Anika warned the teacher that she should come to class new girl, whose name is Pippi Longstocking. The teacher had already heard about Pippi. In the small town there was a lot of talk about her. And since the teacher was sweet and kind, she decided to do everything to make Pippi like it at school.
Without waiting for an invitation, Pippi sat down at an empty desk. But the teacher did not make any reprimand to her. On the contrary, she said very friendly:
- Welcome to our school, dear Pippi! I hope you enjoy your stay with us and that you learn a lot here.
“And I hope that I will have Christmas holidays,” answered Pippi. “That’s why I came here.” Justice comes first.
– Please tell me your full name. I'll put you on the list of students. 
“My name is Peppilotta-Victualia-Rulgardina-Crusminta, daughter of Captain Ephraim Longstocking, “Thunderstorm of the Seas,” and now the Negro king. Strictly speaking, Pippi is diminutive name. My dad thought Peppilotta took too long to say.
“I see,” said the teacher. “Then we’ll call you Pippi too.” Now let's see what you know. You are already a big girl and you can probably do a lot. Let's start with arithmetic. Please tell me, Pippi, how much it will be if you add five to seven.
Pippi looked at the teacher with bewilderment and dissatisfaction.
“If you don’t know this yourself, do you really think that I will count for you?” - she answered the teacher.
All the students' eyes widened in surprise. And the teacher patiently explained that they don’t answer like that at school, that they say “you” to the teacher and, when addressing her, they call her “miss.”
“Please forgive me,” said Pippi, embarrassed, “I didn’t know that and I won’t do it again.”
“I hope so,” said the teacher. “You didn’t want to count for me, but I’ll count for you: if you add five to seven, you get twelve.”
- Just think about it! - Pippi exclaimed. – It turns out that you can count it yourself. Why did you ask me?.. Oh, I said “you” again - forgive me, please.
And as punishment, Pippi herself pinched her ear hard.
The teacher decided not to pay any attention to this and asked next question:
- Well, Pippi, now tell me, what is eight and four?
“I think sixty-seven,” Pippi answered.
“That’s not true,” said the teacher, “eight and four will be twelve.”
- Well, old lady, this is too much! You yourself just said that five and seven are twelve. There should be some kind of order at school too! And if you really want to do all these calculations, then you could go to your corner and count for good measure, and in the meantime we would go into the yard to play tag... Oh, I’m saying “you” again! Forgive me one last time. I'll try to behave better next time.
The teacher said that she was ready to forgive Pippi this time too. But now, obviously, it’s not worth continuing to ask her questions about arithmetic, she’d rather ask other children.
- Tommy, please solve this problem. Lisa had seven apples, and Axel had nine. How many apples did they have together?
“Yes, count it, Tommy,” Pippi suddenly intervened, “and, besides, tell me: why did Axel’s stomach hurt more than Lisa’s, and in whose garden did they pick these apples?”
Freken again pretended that she had not heard anything and said, turning to Anika:
- Well, Anika, now you count: Gustav went with his comrades on an excursion. They gave him one crown with him, and he returned with seven ores. How much money did Gustav spend?
“And I want to know,” said Pippi, “why did this boy waste so much money?” And what did he buy with it: lemonade or something else? And did he wash his ears well when getting ready for the excursion?
The teacher decided not to do arithmetic anymore today. She thought that perhaps Pippi's reading would go better. So she took out from the closet a piece of cardboard with a hedgehog drawn on it. Under the picture there was a large letter "Y".
- Well, Pippi, now I’ll show you an interesting thing. This is Yo-e-e-zhik. And the letter that is depicted here is called “Yo”.
- Well, yes? And I always thought that “Yo” is a big stick with three small ones across it and two fly specks on top. Tell me, please, what does a hedgehog have in common with fly specks?
The teacher did not answer Pippi, but took out another cardboard on which a snake was drawn, and said that the letter under the picture was called “3”.
- ABOUT!! When people talk about snakes, I always remember how I fought a giant snake in India. It was such a terrible snake that you can’t even imagine - fourteen meters long, and as angry as a wasp. Every day she devoured five adult Indians, and for a snack she feasted on two small children. And then one day she decided to feast on me. She wrapped herself around me, but I was not taken aback and hit her on the head with all my might. Bang! Here she hisses. And I said it again - bam! And then she - wow! Yes, yes, that's exactly how it was. A very scary story!..
Pippi took a breath, and the teacher, who by this time finally realized that Pippi - difficult child, invited the whole class to draw something. “Probably, drawing will captivate Pippi, and she will at least sit quietly for a while,” the lady thought and handed out paper and colored pencils to the children.
“You can draw whatever you want,” she said and, sitting down at her table, began checking the notebooks. A minute later she looked up to watch the children drawing and discovered that no one was drawing, but everyone was looking at Pippi, who was lying face down drawing on the floor.
“Listen, Pippi,” said the lady with irritation, “why don’t you draw on paper?”
“I painted it all over a long time ago.” But the portrait of my horse did not fit on this tiny piece of paper. Now I'm just drawing the front legs, and when I reach the tail, I'll have to go out into the corridor.
The teacher thought for a minute, but decided not to give up.
“Now, children, stand up and we’ll sing a song,” she suggested.
All the children rose from their seats, all except Pippi, who continued to lie on the floor.
“Go ahead and sing, and I’ll rest a little,” she said, “otherwise, if I start singing, the glass will fly.”
But then the teacher’s patience ran out, and she told the children that they should all go out for a walk in the school yard, and she needed to talk to Pippi alone. As soon as all the children left, Pippi got up from the floor and went to the teacher's table.
“You know what, Miss,” she said, “I’m thinking this: I was very interested in coming here and seeing what you’re doing here.” But I don’t feel like going here anymore. And with the Christmas holidays, let it be as it will be. There are too many apples, hedgehogs and snakes in your school for me. My head was spinning. You, miss, I hope you won’t be upset by this?
But the teacher said that she was very upset, and most of all that Pippi did not want to behave properly.
- Any girl will be kicked out of school if she behaves like you, Pippi.
- How, did I behave badly? – Pippi asked in surprise. – Honestly“I didn’t notice it,” she added sadly. It was impossible not to feel sorry for her, because no girl in the world could be as sincerely upset as she was. 
Pippi was silent for a minute, and then said, stammering:
- You see, miss, when your mother is an angel, and your father is a black king, and you yourself have sailed the seas all your life, you don’t know how to behave at school among all these apples, hedgehogs and snakes.
The Freken told Pippi that she understood this, that she was no longer angry with her and that Pippi would be able to come to school again when she was a little older. At these words, Pippi beamed with happiness and said:
– You, miss, are amazingly sweet. And here’s a gift for you, miss, from me.
Pippi took a small, elegant golden bell out of her pocket and placed it on the table in front of the teacher. The teacher said that she could not accept such an expensive gift from her.
- No, you must, miss, you must! - Pippi exclaimed. “Otherwise I’ll come to school again tomorrow, and it won’t give anyone any pleasure.”
Then Pippi ran out into the schoolyard and jumped on her horse. All the children surrounded Pippi, everyone wanted to pat the horse and watch Pippi ride out of the yard.
– I remember going to school in Argentina, so it was a school! - Pippi said and looked at the guys. - If only you could get there! There, three days after the Christmas holidays, Easter holidays begin. And when Easter ends, then summer begins three days later. Are running out summer holidays on the first of November, and here, however, you have to work hard, because the Christmas holidays begin only on the eleventh. But in the end it can be dealt with because in Argentina they don't give lessons. In Argentina, it is strictly forbidden to prepare home lessons. True, sometimes it happens that some Argentine boy secretly climbs into the closet and, so that no one sees, learns a little homework. But his mother will give him a hard time if she notices this. They don't teach arithmetic there at all, and if some boy accidentally knows what five and seven are and tells the teacher about it, she will put him in a corner for the whole day. Reading is only done there free days and then, if there are books to read, but usually no one has such books...
– What are they doing there at school? – the little boy asked in amazement.
“They eat sweets,” answered Pippi. – There is a candy factory near the school. So, a special pipe was led from her directly into the classroom, and therefore the children do not have a minute of free time - just have time to chew.
– What does the teacher do? – the other girl did not let up.
“Silly,” answered Pippi, “the teacher there picks up candy papers and makes candy wrappers.” Don't you think that the guys themselves deal with candy wrappers there? No, pipes! The kids there don’t even go to school themselves, but send their little brothers... Well, hello! – Pippi shouted joyfully and waved her big hat. - And you yourself somehow count how many apples Axel had. You won't see me here any time soon...
And Pippi noisily drove out of the gate. The horse galloped so fast that stones flew from under its hooves, and window glass rattled.
Translated from Swedish by L. Lungina.
Drawings by E. Vedernikov.
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:
I. How Pippi goes shopping
One cheerful spring day, the sun was shining, the birds were singing, but the puddles had not yet dried, Tommy and Annika ran to Pippi. Tommy brought along a few lumps of sugar for the horse, and he and Annika stood on the terrace for a minute to pat the horse's sides and feed it the sugar. Then they went into Pippi's room. Pippi was still lying in bed and sleeping, as always, with her feet on the pillow and her head covered with a blanket. Annika pulled her finger and said:
Get up!
Mr. Nilsson had long since woken up and, sitting on the lampshade, swayed from side to side. Some time passed before the blanket moved and a disheveled red head crawled out from under it. Pippi opened her clear eyes and smiled widely:
I. How the “Chicken” villa is bought from Pippi
Our town, as you know, is small, but very cozy - narrow streets paved with cobblestones, low neat houses with front gardens and many, many flowers. Any person who accidentally found himself in the city could not help but think that it must be very calm and pleasant to live here. True, we have no special attractions, only two places are worthy of the attention of visitors: the local history museum and the old mound - and that’s all. However, the residents of the city are very proud of these sights and therefore have hung signs so that every visitor knows where they should first go. On one arrow it is written in large letters: “To the local history museum”; on the other - “To the mound”.
But there is also a third sign in the city - also an arrow and the inscription “To the villa “Chicken””. True, this pointer appeared only recently. The fact is that lately almost all visitors have been asking how to get to the “Chicken” villa. As a matter of fact, people are now more interested in this villa than in the local history museum or mound.
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 fantastic physical strength, as well as a suitcase with gold, which allows 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 police officers 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 Langstrump, 1945
Pippi Långstrump går ombord, 1946
Pippi Långstrump i Söderhavet, 1948
First published in 1945, 1946, 1948 by Rabén & Sjögren, Sweden.
All foreign rights are handled by The Astrid Lindgren Company, Lidingö, Sweden.
© Text: Astrid Lindgren, 1945, 1946, 1948/ / The Astrid Lindgren Company
© Dzhanikyan A.O., illustrations, 2019
© Lungina L.Z., heirs, translation into Russian, 2019
© Design, edition in Russian.
LLC "Publishing Group "Azbuka-Atticus", 2019
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 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. 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.
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 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, in Egypt everyone walks like this, and no one is surprised 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,” 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.
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 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 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 directly 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.
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.
They both ran to the bathroom, washed and brushed their teeth much faster than usual, got dressed instantly and, to their mother’s surprise, 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 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 so cunning,” Pippi answered. - 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 things 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.
“We’ll see how lucky we are,” said Pippi. – You always find something. But we need to hurry up. 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 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 how 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 let go of it? 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 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 it in one hand tin can, into another - a reel 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 best activity than being a dealer, 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 some strange sounds from under the blanket. 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.
