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I went round to the back of the van, but I didn’t get in the queue. I took out a nail and
made a long scratch on his rotten old van. He had just had it painted. Peppi came and had a
look. Tears came into his eyes. “You are a bad boy,” he said. “One day you will get into
trouble. You think you are smart. One day you will be too smart.”
I just laughed and walked off. I knew he wouldn’t do anything. He was too soft-hearted.
He was always giving free ice creams to kids that had no money. The silly fool.
There were a lot of stories going round that ice cream. People said that it was good for
you. Some kids said that it made you better when you were sick. One of the teachers called it
“happy Ice Cream”. I didn’t believe it; it never maid me happy.
All the same, there was something strange about it. Take Pimples Peterson for example.
That wasn’t his real name – I just called him that because he had a lot of pimples. One day
Peppi heard me calling Pimples that name and gave Peterson a purple coloured ice cream.
“Here, eat this,” he said. “I am giving it to you for nothing. It will help you to get rid of your
pimples.” ПЕРЕВОД