Today is Saturday.
After that Tommy and Annika felt a little calmer. In fact they were now so courageous that they ventured to go up to the window and look out over the garden. Big dark clouds sailed through the sky and did their best to hide the moon. And the wind sighed in the trees. Tommy and Annika turned around. But then-oh, horrors-they saw a white figure coming toward them. Tommy shrieked a ghost. Annika was so scared she couldn’t even shriek. The ghost came nearer and nearer. Tommy and Annika hugged each other and shut their eyes. But then they heard the ghost said that she had found Papa’s nightshirt in an old sea chest over there and if she hemmed it up around the bottom she could wear it. Pippi came up to them with the nightshirt dangling around her legs. Annika said that she could have died of fright. Pippi assured her that nightshirts weren’t dangerous and they didn’t bite anybody except in self-defense. Pippi now decided to examine the sea chest thoroughly. She lifted it up and carried it over to the window and opened the cover, so that what little moonlight there was fell on the contents of the chest.
