2018.01.17

Today is Wednesday.

Tommy, still up in the tree, said that if it was so easy to come up that he wanted to come down and pine away a little too. Pippi said they needed a ladder, and then she crawled out of the hole, climbed down the tree, ran after a ladder, pushed it up the tree, and let it down into the hole. Tommy was wild to go down. It was a little bit difficult to go down. It was difficult to climb to the hole, because it was so high up, but Tommy was brave. And he wasn't afraid to climb down into the dark hollow in the trunk. Annika watched him disappear and wondered if she would ever see him again. She peeked in through the crack. Tommy shouted to Annika that she couldn't imagine how wonderful it was there and she must come in too, it wasn't the least bit dangerous when she had a ladder to climb on, if she only do it once, she would never want to do anything else. Annika asked him whether he was sure about that. Tommy said it was absolutely right. With trembling legs Annika climbed up in the tree again, and Pippi helped her with the last hard bit. She drew back a little when she saw how dark it was in the tree trunk, but Pippi held her hand and kept encouraging her.