Today is Tuesday.
Pippi said that she was as rich as a troll so she could buy a surkus all right, but it would be crowded there if she had more horses, and the clowns and the pretty ladies she could keep in the laundry, but it was harder to know what to do with the horses. Tommy told Pippi that she needn't buy a circus and it just costed money to go and look at it. At last Tommy and Annika managed to explain to Pippi what a circus really was, and she took some gold pieces out of her suitcase. Then she put on her hat, which was as big as a milestone, and off they all went. There were crowds of people outside the circus tent and a long line at the ticket window. But at last it was Pippi's turn. She stuck her head through the window and stared at the dear old lady sitting there. She asked how much it costed to look at the lady. But the old lady was a foreigner who didn't understand what Pippi meant and answered in broken Swedish. She said it costed a dollar and a quarter in the grandstand and seventy-five cents for standing room. At that time Tommy interrupted and said that Pippi wanted a seventy-five-cent ticket. Pippi put down a gold piece and the old lady looked suspiciously at it. She bit it to see if it was genuine. At last she convinced that it really was gold and gave Pippi her ticket and a great deal of change in silver.
