(Translated by EJTI; based upon the novel "Wakacje z duchami" by Adam Bahdaj)
Chapter One
1
Maniuś[1]
stopped by the lake shore. He felt soft and warm sand under his feet and silvery
spots were glimmering in his eyes. It was the water, which was exchanging the
lake into a surface of brittle glass by reflecting the light of the sun standing over the forest.
It was quiet. The boy could hear clearly
the rustle of rushes and a faint whistle of his own breath. His heart was
slowly filled with joy. His amazed eyes were following the shady shore, clouds gliding
over the ridge of a distant hill, and, when he looked at the lake again he imagined
himself that the dark depth attracts him towards it.
He smiled – like to himself, like to the
clouds – and then his rascally face set with a calm thought expression on it.
For the first time he had gone from Warsaw
on a distant trip and since three days till now he wasn’t amazed at the world is so wide, so diverse and it gives
such surprises. Since three days he has gone stunned and couldn’t believe that
he had found himself five hundred kilometers beyond the hometown.
But everything was so simple.
Once
upon a time, in spring, small Perełka[2],
who was Maniuś’s best friend, received a letter from his aunt.
Now, Maniuś is seeing clearly, when Perełka
dropped by him with a cheerful shout: ‘Hurray! All of us go to the lake! – and
then both boys went down on the second floor to Felek, who was named Mandżaro[3], and
they were reading together, having flushes on their faces.
At the beginning of the letter there was written,
of course: Why don’t you write to us for
so long?, then: How are things with you
and how’s your dad’s health?, but the ending was the most interesting. (…)
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