2018.01.22

Today is Monday.

Tommy said that he didn't like the ants because they always bit. Pippi told him he could bite them back. Then Tommy found a little clearing among the hazel bushes, and he thought that would be a good place. Pippi said that it was not sunny enough for her freckles and she thought freckles were so attractive. Farther on they came to a hill that was easy to climb. On one side of the hill was a nice sunny rock just like a little balcony, and there they sat down. Pippi asked both of them to shut their eyes while she set the table. Tommy and Annika squeezed their eyes as tightly shut as they could and they heard Pippi opening the basket and rattling paper. Pippi counted one, two, nineteen and told them that they could open their eyes at that moment. They looked, and they squealed with delight when they saw all the good things Pippi had spread on the bare rock. There were good sandwiches with meatballs and ham, a whole pile of sugared pancakes, several little brown sausages, and three pineapple puddings. For, you see, Pippi had learned cooking from the cook on her father's ship.