The Three Comrades

Ondrejko has a real bed of his own, but he would rather sleep on the hay beside Petrik. Fido can’t climb to the loft, so he guards the ladder below.

High in the Slovak mountains, among sheepfolds and fragrant hay, two orphan boys and a lively young dog find a home with Bacha Filina, the stern shepherd who teaches them to obey—and to be kind. Petrik has been passed from place to place; Ondrejko has been left by both parents and grows so frail that the doctor sends him to the mountain air. Together, the boys make a life from small comforts and faithful companionship. But one Sunday they find Bacha sitting alone, his head bowed beneath a sadness they have never seen. That evening, he begins a story he has told no one. What in his past weighs so heavily on him?

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