I would like you to tell you the legend about the dog Dżok. I think it is a very short and not very spectacular story, in contrast to the ones about the "Wawel Dragon", but it is the legend about a real hero dog which lived in Cracow all his life. LET'S START!

He was a small, dark, hybrid breed dog. He wasn't a Beagle or Labrador or Retriever. He was just a mutt. Dogs like this mutt usually don't become legends. Maybe a purebred dog - like a Husky or a Golden Retriever - is likely to do something heroic. But not a mutt. He lived with his owner, a man named Nikodem. When Nikodem died of a heart attack on the Rondo Grunwaldzkie (Grunwaldzkie Roundabout), the dog lost his home. After Nikodem's death, Dżok came back to the Rondo Grunwaldzkie and waited for his owner. But the man didn’t come back. After some time, Dżok started to realize that his friend would never come back to him. So, he found a new home. He chose Maria Müller for his new owner. Maria Müller was a very clever woman. She was very good for poor people and animals. Dżok lived in a house with Maria Müller and her husband Władysław Müller. Dżok was very happy in his new home. Maria even took Dżok to the Cracow television studio where they appeared on a program about the "Towarzystwo Opieki nad Zwierzętami", which means Animal Care Organization. Then, Władysław Müller died in 1992. A few years later, in 1998, Maria passed away as well. Dżok escaped from his home and never came back. The dog started wandering around Cracow and then Poland, too. Finally, he came to the railway station in Swoszowice (part of Cracow). He ran under the train and the train ran him over. Now Dżok is honored in a statue on the Wiślane Bulwary.