Today is Tuesday.
The policemen didn't think it was funny and then told her that some nice people were arranging for her to get into a children's home. Pippi told them she had already had a place in a children's home. The policemen asked her which one was. She told them Villa Villekulla was. The policemen smiled and told Pippi she must got into a real children's home and had someone look after her. Pippi asked if someone allowed her to bring a horse into his house. The policemen said no. And Pippi asked what about a monkey? The answer was no too. Pippi told them that she didn't intend to move. The policemen told her she must go to school to learn things like multiplication tables. Pippi asked them why she must learn that. She had lived without the tables for nine years and she would get along without it from then on too. The policemen told her she would be embarrassed when she grew up and was asked by someone what the capital of Portugal was. She told them it would be so easy that she could write to Portugal and ask.
