Zacharias Papantoniou

“ They imagined a dog who would play with them, who would watch over them and be a guard. They immediately began to give him a name, to call him Pisto, Skopo, Flox, as if he were there in front of them.
—If we'd had it yesterday, the three hens and the poor village cock would have survived!
But while they were talking, there was the other cock, the one they had brought with them, coming out of the bushes.
He seemed to say “But you've got a cock! Can't you see me?” And he strutted about like no other. All of the Green Wood, the whole world seemed to belong to him. ”

“ Out of wood with a strong door.
—That won't be enough, said Andreas. We came and settled in the middle of nowhere and without a dog. Now as we have suffered because of it, we see how much we need such a companion. ”