“Garaska is a red-haired runt with thin and crooked legs, like forks. Street boys call him frog. He is seven years old, but to look from the outside, no one would give him more than five years, he is so thin, inconspicuous and small. The only noticeable thing about him is that he has a round, scrofulous head with sores near the ears, and a blue belly, swollen from rye bread...”