My people lived through the Black Plague and the Thirty Years War.

[…]; and we haue done but greenly In hugger mugger to interre him.

A majority of the properties are so small as not to afford a subsistence to the proprietors, of whom, according to some computations, as many as three millions are obliged to eke out their means of support either by working for hire, or by taking additional land, generally on metayer tenure.

Residents agree that a little boy in feeted pajamas and with toys makes the dormitory feel like home.