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.