Today is Friday.
Tommy told Pippi that they didn't have any school that day because they were having Scrubbing Vacation. Pippi said that she liked Scrubbing Vacation but it was injustice again, but she indeed didn't need a Scrubbing Vacation because she could scrub without any vacation and that was what she intended to do at that moment. She asked Tommy and Annika to sit on the kitchen table so that she could scrub the kitchen floor. Tommy and Annika obediently climbed up on the kitchen table and Mr. Nilsson hopped up after them and went to sleep in Annika's lap. Pippi heated a big kettle of water and without more ado poured it out on the kitchen floor. She took off her big shoes and laid them neatly on the bread plate. She tied two scrubbing brushes on her bare feet and skated over the floor, plowing through the water so that it splashed all around her. She said that she certainly should have been a skating princess and then she kicked her left foot up so high that the scrubbing brush broke a piece out of the overhead light. She continued and skipped nimbly over a chair standing in her way. She said that it was clean at last and then took off the brushes.
