Excerpt from The Little Immigrant: A True Story

"Nah! Renestine, cannot you come with the skirt and let me lay it in your trunk? You are dreaming, dreaming all the time. My child, these things must be ready by midnight tonight."

The girl was thirteen years old and her mother was getting her possessions together to send her to America to join a sister who had already gone there and was married and now sent to have her little sister journey to the States, too.

"Oh, Mutterchen, I do not want to go, " burst out Renestine. "I want to stay with you. I do not want to go."

"Nah! Kindlein, stay then, " said the mother, keeping her own grief away from her child.

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