"and forget not that the earth delights to feel your

bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

Kahil Gibran

"I don't know what you are going to do," said Pippi, "but I know I can't lie around and be lazy. I am a ThingFinder, and you're a ThingFinder you don't have a minute to spare."

"What do you say you are?" asked Annika.

"A ThingFinder."

"What's that?" asked Tommy.

"Somebody who hunts for things, naturally. What else could it be?" said Pippi as she swept all the floor into a little pile.

"Oh, all kinds," said Pippi. "Lumps of gold, ostrich feathers, dead rats, candy snapcrackers, little tiny screws, and things like that."

Tommy and Annika thought it sounded as if it would be fun and wanted very much to be ThingFinders too, although Tommy did say he hoped he'd find a lump of gold and not a little tiny screw.

"We shall see what we shall see," said Pippi. "One always finds something...."

Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren, Copyright, 1950)