How Peppy buy Chicken Villa
Before Peppy arrived, there were two sights in the town - the local history museum and the mound. The townspeople hung two signs so that any visitor could find a way to these places. But now another sign has appeared in the city - “To the Chicken Villa” - after all, they are more interested in the house where the strongest girl in the world lives than in the museum and the barrow.
Once a very important and wealthy gentleman came to the city. Seeing the signpost, he thought that an ordinary villa could not be a tourist attraction, and decided that it was for sale. Mr. liked the idea of buying a villa in a small town, where he would be considered the richest and most important, and he went to Peppy's house.
The gentleman did not like the crumbling house, but the garden was to his taste. He began to plan aloud how he would demolish the house and cut down the old oak, ignoring Peppy, Tommy, and Annika.
Peppy took this visit as another entertainment and did not tell her that she was the mistress of the villa. On the contrary, the girl wanted to immediately help demolish the house and cut down the garden, which scared Tommy and Annika in earnest.
The gentleman believed that "there is nothing more disgusting than children" in the world, and Peppy supported him.
All children need to be shot, ”Peppy insisted. “But alas, this cannot be done, because where then will all sorts of important uncles come from?” But you can’t do without them.
The master was tired of the tricks of the red-haired girl, he wanted to teach her a lesson, but could not catch her and decided to recoup on Annika. Then Peppy grabbed him, threw him in the air several times, then threw him into the car seat and announced that she was selling her house only on Mondays, and today is Friday.
An angry gentleman decided to buy this villa and drive the children out of there. He spotted a policeman and asked to be taken to the mistress of the house. To his surprise, the policeman confirmed that Peppy owned the villa, and the gentleman had to go away.
How Peppy Cheers Aunt Laura
One day, Tommy and Annika did not come to visit Peppy. The girl went to her friends and found Aunt Laura as their guest. Peppy said she loves "these old aunts."
Aunts need to be encouraged, that’s the whole secret, ”Peppy said triumphantly.
When the guest started complaining about a nervous system disorder, Peppy told her about her nervous grandmother, who drank fox venom to calm her nerves.
Every time Aunt Laura tried to tell something, Peppy got into a conversation with another amazing story. In the end, the girl said she was going to tell a lot of interesting things, but they stopped her mouth. After that, Aunt Laura got up and was about to leave.
How Peppy Looks for Cucarabamba
One morning, Peppy told her friends that she had found a new word - kukarabymba - and now she wants to know what it means. She decided that for certain, kukarabymba could be bought at the store, and the children went to the main street of the town.
We will ride on horseback, otherwise we will be late and get into the city when the whole kukaramba has already been dismantled. I won’t be surprised if the burgomaster takes the last piece of chicken from us under the nose.
To Peppy's great regret, there was no cucumberimba either in the candy store or in the hardware store. The girl thought that kukaramba is a disease, and went to the doctor, but it turned out that such a disease does not exist. Then Peppy climbed in. She looked out the window of the house and asked the ladies in the room if they had a chicken. The ladies became alarmed, deciding that we were talking about some kind of dangerous animal.
Realizing that no one had seen the crowns, Peppy went home. On the path of the garden, she noticed an unfamiliar green bug and said that this is kukaramba.
How Peppy invents a new sport
Summer holidays are over, Tommy and Annika went to school. Peppy flatly refused to study, but often brought her friends to school on horseback. Once the children told a girlfriend that Rosenblum freken will come to school.
This rich, but very stingy old woman gave gifts to the most obedient and diligent students every year. She chose the lucky ones herself, arranging a real exam before giving gifts. Even if the child was in need, he received nothing if he could not answer the old woman's question.
No, it was not surprising that all the children in the town lived in constant fear of this old lady.
Freken appreciated the order, so before the exam weighed all the children and built them in three lines - according to the number of people in the family. Pupils who did not answer the questions stood in the fourth line for those who should be ashamed.
Peppy came to the exam when the turn of Tommy and Annika came up. She made her way to the front row and began to answer the questions of Freken Rosenblum as she saw fit. Freken got angry, and the girl really liked "this new sport: ask each other questions."
Caught in the fourth line, Peppy began to ask questions to the children, many of whom were already crying. Of course, all the answers were correct, and each student of the fourth line received from Peppy a gold coin and a huge bag of sweets.
When ‹...› all the children went home, it turned out that just the ones that Freken Rosenblum wanted to punish were the most fun.
How Peppy receives a letter
It was a cold winter. Tommy and Annika did a lot of work, their health was weakened and they got measles. Peppy was not allowed to visit them, and she spent whole days sitting on the stairs set to the children's window, entertained her friends and gave them sweets. Finally, the children recovered, but still were thin and weak.
Peppy once received a letter from her father, Captain Ephroim. He wrote that he was going to sail for his daughter on the schooner "Jumper" and take her to his island of Veseliya.
How Peppy sets sail
The “Jumper” entered the harbor, all decorated with flags. Having met, Peppy and King Ephroim I Longstocking began tossing each other into the air, which greatly interfered with the photographer.
After a sumptuous dinner, Papa Efroim went to bed, and Tommy and Annika sat in Peppy's kitchen and thought about how sad they would be without a cheerful girlfriend. Peppy was in a wonderful mood - she dreamed of how she would heal in Veseliya.
Being a Negro princess is a pretty good activity for a girl who does not go to school.
Noticing that Tommy and Annika were completely depressed, Peppy was surprised: had she really forgotten to tell her friends that they were also going to Veseliya. At first, the children did not believe that their mother would let them go to the other end of the world. But parents decided that Tommy and Annika would improve their health by basking in the tropical sun. In addition, they trusted Peppy very much.
In early spring, the schooner "Jumper" hit the road. The children were escorted by the parents of Tommy and Annika and their classmates, burned with envy.
How Peppy comes ashore
The journey was so long that Tommy and Annika almost forgot how they lived in a small Swedish town. They got a tan and learned to climb the guys like Peppy.
Finally, the schooner "Jumper" entered the small harbor of the island of Veselia. All 126 fun people met their king and princess. They were delighted with Peppy, especially when she raised her horse to one shoulder and Papa Ephroim to the other.
The captain showed his daughter a bamboo hut, built specifically for her, and the place where he first stepped on the island. Veselyany marked him with a stone with the inscription:
In the great blue sea, our fat leader sailed to us. ‹...› May he always be as thick and gorgeous as the day his leg touched our land.
Then King Ephroim and Peppy sat on their thrones and a little ruled the island. And in the evening, the fun danced for them around the fire.
How Peppy Talks with a Shark
Peppy, Tommy, and Annika quickly made friends with the fun people who thought they were very beautiful. They bathed in the warm ocean and enjoyed fruit, and Peppy told her subjects fables from the lives of white children.
Once, Papa Efroim gathered all the grown-ups merry and went to the neighboring island to hunt wild pigs. The children were left to host at Veseliya, and this did not upset them at all.
I ‹...› have never heard that any children are upset, being left without adults; to celebrate, I’m even ready to memorize the entire multiplication table.
After breakfast, the children went to inspect the caves, of which there were a lot on the coral island. To the largest cave, where the camp was fun with a large supply of provisions, it was necessary to get on a steep rock, in the bay under which there were many sharks.
The fun people were not afraid of sharks and dived to the bottom of the bay for large pearls to play balls with them. Captain Efroim knew that pearls are expensive and can be exchanged for many necessary things, but decided not to change the life of their people, and only occasionally took a few pearls to buy tobacco.
Making his way to the main cave, Tommy fell into the water, a bloodthirsty shark swam up to him and stuck sharp teeth into his leg. Peppy was in the water. She grabbed a shark, scolded her for misbehavior, and cast her far into the sea.
Tommy was saved, but Peppy was very upset that the poor, small shark remained hungry.
How Peppy Explains to Jim and Buk
Peppy stretched a rope along a steep cliff, and now even Annika could get to the cave, which was so spacious that all the children of the island fit in it.
The guys competed who would spit on the shark bay when they noticed someone else's ship. It was a Jim and Buk ship. When buying tobacco, these hefty guys noticed that Captain Efroim was paying with selected pearls, and heard him talking about the large stocks of pearls on Veseliya. They waited for the captain to leave the island, and appeared to take away their balls from the party.
Having landed on the island, the bandits discovered that the children were in an inaccessible cave. To lure them, Jim and Buk pretended to be ordinary tourists and decided to swim in the bay, although Peppy warned them that there were many sharks.
I just can’t say that swimming is dangerous here. Of course, you risk losing your arm or your leg there, but wooden prostheses cost no more than a crown.
Having run away from the sharks with difficulty, Jim and Buk realized that you couldn’t lure children from the cave, and decided to get to them and take away the pearls. Peppy removed the rope, and the bandits had to climb a steep wall. They took turns falling into the bay, and Peppy had to save them by throwing coconuts in sharks.
Finally, the bandits were tired of risking their lives, and they decided to wait until the children got hungry and went down by themselves, but Peppy said that there would be enough food for two weeks in the cave. Angry, Jim and Buk went to bed on a rocky shore in wet pants. At night, a terrible thunderstorm began. The bandits were wet under a tropical rain, and the children were sleeping in a dry cave.
How Peppy taught the bandits a lesson
All night Jim and Buk were wet and cursing with each other, and in the morning they decided to get pearls at any cost. Meanwhile, a horse and Mr. Nilson arrived at the cave, returning from the jungle after meeting with his relatives. The bandits grabbed the horse and began to threaten that they would kill her if Peppy did not bring them pearls. Beech decided to take revenge on Peppy for a terrible night by cutting it under the nut, and to take the horse to another island.
I’m coming, ”Peppy answered,“ but just remember that you yourself asked me to do this. ”
She went down to the bandits with eyes burning in a strange fire, and decided to play leapfrog with them. With her strong hands, Peppy threw the bandits three meters, they fell on a rock, hit painfully, and the girl walked by and scolded them with might and main.
Peppy then loaded the bandits into a boat, and they left Veseliya in a terrible hurry.The steamboat of Jim and Buk disappeared over the horizon, and right there the schooner Ephroim appeared in the sea. Peppy joyfully met her father, but never talked about the bandits.
How Peppy Leaves the Country of Fun
Time passed. Tommy and Annika were so tanned that they looked like they were amusing themselves, and Peppy had huge freckles on her face, and she considered herself irresistible. Almost all the time the children spent in their favorite cave. Peppy blocked the bay with a solid net, and sharks did not stop them from swimming. Friends took pearls from the bottom of the bay and played bandits.
The rest of the time the children spent in the bamboo house that Peppy built, jumped from a palm tree into the ocean and made excursions into the jungle.
The rainy season was approaching, and Captain Efroim decided to send his daughter to Sweden - he was afraid that Peppy would get sick. Tommy and Annika missed their parents and wanted to sail home before Christmas. The fun people were very sad when Peppy, Tommy and Annika boarded the Jumpers, but they promised to return very soon. The guys hit the road alone - Papa Efroim left to rule the island.
It soon became clear that the guys would not have time to return home by Christmas. They arrived in Sweden only in early January.
Peppy doesn't want to be an adult
Parents Tommy and Annika were so glad that they did not let their children go for a long time. The guys were only upset that they missed Christmas and did not receive gifts.
They only managed to come to Peppy the next evening. The children were amazed to find that the Chicken Villa looked like a house from a Christmas card - the roof was covered with snow and a candle was burning on the terrace. In the large kitchen, they found a Christmas tree with gifts and a festive table - this Peppy decided to return the missed Christmas.
Peppy said that the next day they will build a snow house, teach the horse how to ski, and they will always have fun. Then Tommy thought that he would soon become an adult, and he did not want to grow up, because it is so boring. Pepi agreed with him.
Adults are never really fun. Yes, and what they are doing: boring work or mods, and they only talk about calluses and income taxes.
The girl said she was not going to grow up - for this she stocked up with magic pills. These pills must be taken in complete darkness and utter magic words.
Friends extinguished candles and swallowed pills, suspiciously reminiscent of dry peas. Then Tommy and Annika returned home, looked out the window for a long time at Peppy’s house, in the window of which a candle was burning and dreamed of staying with her girlfriend forever, playing with her and often visiting the country Veseliya.
They wanted to wave Peppy if she looked in their direction, but the girl looked at the flame for a long time, and then blew out the candle.
