The prison guards wondered a lot
about the reason why a dog was in the same cell as a new inmate. After so much
patience and curiosity, they came to know that the dog had not accepted the
verdict which separated him from his friend, who fainted right after being
sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour.
When the guards pushed the plate of
food and the loaf of bread under the cell door with the tips of their boots,
they kept their eyes on the keyhole to closely examine the reaction of the two
inmates on either side of the plate.
At first, the man ate bread dipped
in the sauce and left the bone to the dog.
Then, when the inmates were allowed
salted buffalo, the man ate the piece of meat that floated on the sauce and
left the bone to the dog.
Later, when the administration allowed
the prison kitchens to prepare chicken, the man ate the lone chicken thigh on
his plate and left the bone for the dog.
Finally, when the inmates were
served, for the first time, hamburgers on the occasion of an expected visit
paid by a foreign delegation on behalf of an international human rights organisation,
the man gulped the whole ration down without leaving anything for the dog, who
could not believe his own eyes,
Who remained silent for a long time,
staring at his friend,
Who started to moan and moan,
Who flew into a fit of raging bark,
Who attacked his friend and devoured
him.
