In 597, Wolf, a young Angle, travels from Rome to England, the land of his birth, accompanying Prior Augustine, later to be known as St. Augustine of Canterbury, on his mission to bring Christianity to English soil.
Not wanting a dog around at all, Jill's father gives her an impossibly small sum of money with which to buy one, but determined Jill finds a St. Bernard for free.
In fifteenth-century Sussex a young boy living with his grandfather, a harsh miller, dreams of having a friend his age and a horse to take him to his married sister.
