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Portrait of Zacharias Papantoniou Zacharias Papantoniou The High Mountains — Battle with a Watchdog

So he threw the stone with all his might.
The stone hit the dog on the backbone. The dog whined, threw himself on the stone which had fallen, bit it furiously as if to eat it up, took a step backwards and once again rushed forward.
But as he saw the child still with a stone in his right hand, ready to hit him a second time, he changed his mind.
We all fear retaliation. The dog had in front of him a child who was fighting for his life.
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