Zacharias Papantoniou

“ What simple children they have become!
With their big bags, they resemble masons and peddlers who come down to the town.
The cobbler They remember them at this moment. And they imitate them, one after the other, as they really are, with their actions, with their cries. Dimitrakis plays the tinsmith and shouts “Copper pots to cover.....” ”

“ They needed two or three days to get ready and in the end, one morning, the great lively caravan set off.
They are leaving for the high mountains. They are twenty-five children. Fifteen are going on foot, the other ten astride their laden mules, led by three mule-drivers. Mr Stephan follows them on his red mare.
And the twenty-five children become unrecognisable. They carry sticks. Bags and gourds hang at their backs. They carry their straw hats and big shoes.
They are dressed for mountain life. The same clothes they will wear from morning to night, that must be resistant to thorns and stones ”