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Pippi Longstocking Chapter 2 Summary

Pippi Is a Thing-Finder and Gets into a Fight

  • Annika and Tommy awaken excited the next morning. They can't wait to go see Pippi.
  • Pippi is baking pepparkakor cookies when they arrive, so they watch and wait for her to finish. It's an amusing process, to say the least.
  • When she's done, Pippi invites Tommy and Annika to join her on a thing-finding expedition, explaining that everything lying on the ground is fair game.
  • When they spot an old man lying on the ground, Pippi suggests they take him—but Tommy objects, and they move on. (It would be a very different story if they didn't, wouldn't it?)
  • Pippi is very excited when she finds first a rusty old can and then an empty spool of thread, but she is distracted from her hunt when she sees a boy being chased out of a cottage by five others.
  • Annika and Tommy recognize the lead bully, Bengt, and Pippi takes him to task.
  • Bengt laughs at Pippi, mocking her, and the other four boys join in.
  • When Bengt pushes Pippi, Pippi responds by carrying him over to a tree and hanging him on a branch. She dispatches the other boys similarly and tells Willie, the boy who was being picked on, to come tell her if they ever bother him again.
  • Back at Villa Villekulla, Pippi realizes that while she found two beautiful things (yeah… she means the rusty tin can and the empty spool), Tommy and Annika didn't find anything.
  • She directs them to look in very specific locations and (surprise, surprise) they find very nice things (no, really—a journal and a necklace) of their own.
  • At this point, Pippi, who was up half the night playing ball, decides to take a nap and asks Tommy and Annika to tuck her in, which is when they learn of Pippi's odd sleeping style: feet on the pillow, head buried under the covers.
  • On their way home Tommy and Annika wonder if, perhaps, Pippi put those objects out for them to find. Hmm.