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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782638703321

Autore

Patterson Nancy-Lou

Titolo

The tramp room [[electronic resource] /] / by Nancy-Lou Patterson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1999

ISBN

1-280-92519-1

9786610925193

0-88920-651-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Disciplina

jC813/.54

Soggetti

Mennonites - Ontario - Waterloo (Regional municipality)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Publication ... in part by funding from the Friends of the Joseph Schneider Haus."--T.p. verso.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Chapter One: St. Nicholas Eve; Chapter Two: The Tramp Boy; Chapter Three: Visitors; Chapter Four: Flax Breaking; Chapter Five: The Bushlot; Chapter Six: Sausage Making; Chapter Seven: The Lamb's Table; Chapter Eight: A Snowstorm; Chapter Nine: Goose Quills; Chapter Ten: Candle Making; Chapter Eleven: The Spinning Room; Chapter Twelve: Peace Cookies; Chapter Thirteen: More Visitors; Chapter Fourteen: Christkindl; Chapter Fifteen: St. Nicholas Day

Sommario/riassunto

A young girl falls asleep in the Joseph Schneider Haus and wakes up in the 1850's. At the same time, a tramp boy seeks sanctuary from a cruel master. Caught in the past, the young girl, Elizabeth Salisbury, is thrust into the drama of the tramp boy's struggle to remain free.