Today is Tuesday.
Pippi said that she always liked to tidy up a little as soon as she had eaten. Then it was time for games. Pippi suggested that they play a game called not touch the floor. It was very simple. The only thing one had to do was walk all around the kitchen without once stepping on the floor. Pippi skipped around in the twinkling of an eye, and even for Tommy and Annika it was quite easy. You began on the drain board, and if you stretched your legs enough it was possible t step onto the back of the stove. From the stove to the wood box, and from the wood box to the hat shelf, and down onto the table, and from there across two chairs to the corner cupboard. Between the corner cupboard and drain board was a distance of several feet, but, luckily, there stood the horse, and if you climbed up on him at the tail end and slid off at the head end, making a quick turn at exactly the right moment, you landed exactly on the drain board. When they had played this game for a while and Annika’s dress was no longer her next-best dress but her next-next-next-best one, and Tommy had become as black as a chimney sweep, they decided to think up something else.
