It was a Saturday morning and the sun was shining bright. It was a typical day when some sort of inexplicable freshness and liveliness filled the air, similar to what one feels after the rain that washes away the dirt. Birds were twittering in the garden; everything seemed to be perfect.
Pele loved these days. He leisurely consumed his breakfast and all he did with Colin afterwards was nothing but walking in the city and observing the people. They were all in a hurry: the crowds on the trams and buses hastened to their places of work. But Colin and Pele never took the bus; they were rather walking around slowly and enjoyed the fresh air. Mrs Hawkins, the kind woman selling pretzels, was Pele's favourite, because she always gave him a pretzel when she saw Colin and him. That's why Pele considered Mrs Hawkins a very nice and gentle old lady, and he would gladly have given her a huge loud kiss, if it wouldn't have been taken as a rough disrespect.
After this they regularly met with Freytag, whom they visited every single day and from whom they bought a small loaf of bread or a couple of rolls. Freytag was a foreigner. He had moved to this town a few years ago and opened a bakery immediately. He told a lot to Colin and Pele about the country and the town where he came from: about the dozens of groves inside the city, where he would sit and read the newspapers in the afternoon; about the stray dogs that were always chasing the stray cats of the city with loud noise; about his nice neighbours; but mostly about his previous place of work, the sugar works. Pele was really interested in all these. They were on quite good terms with Freytag, and when they visited him, Pele played for hours with Freytag's dog, Gonzo. After some time he got tired, because Gonzo usually stepped on his legs, which was irritating after some time, and Pele got angry with him soon or later. That's why Colin and Pele went on with their morning walk.
They went into the forest near the town and spent a few hours there. They got rid of the refreshment they drank at Freytag's house, because they always drank something: Colin had a whisky, but Pele rather wanted a little water as he never liked alcoholic drinks.
After the woods it was time to go home and have a rest in the back garden. Colin always proved to be faster and it was usually him who managed to occupy the hammock, so Pele had to lie down near Colin in the fresh green grass, which he actually was really fond of. The sun was shining bright and it felt great to have siesta in the garden. Colin and Pele decided to spend the rest of the day like this: Colin was reading, while Pele was waiting for Susan to arrive home and prepare the dinner. Colin ate hardly anything and he even seemed to be a bit too thin. On the contrary, Pele was always hungry and he would have eaten all day long if he could, but Susan decided that he wasn't allowed to eat more unless he wanted to get too fat.
That's how an average day of Colin and Pele looked like. They really liked each other, and they could understand each other without saying a word. The only thing that Pele didn't like about Colin was that near him he felt so small and unimportant when being in society. To say it namely, Colin had a great sense of expressing himself, while talking wasn't Pele's cup of tea. And there was one more thing Pele couldn't stand about Colin: that when the evening came he always shut him out of the house, and poor Pele had to sleep on the door-mat in front of the entrance. But what should a dog expect, when his master has Persian carpets in the house...
By Dávid Sasvári (Herman Ottó Gimnázium, Miskolc)