JAN OF THE WINDMILL

CONTENTS.

Chapter I. The windmiller's wife.--Strangers.--Ten shillings a
week.--The little Jan.

Chapter II. The miller's calculations.--His hopes and fears.--The
nurse-boy.--Calm.

Chapter III. The windmiller's words come true.--The red shawl.--In
the clouds.--Nursing v. pig-minding.--The round-house.--The miller's
thumb.

Chapter IV. Black as slans.--Vair and voolish.--The miller and his
man.

Chapter V. The pocket-book and the family bible.--Five pounds'
reward.

Chapter VI. George goes courting.--George as an enemy.--George as a
friend.--Abel plays schoolmaster.--The love-letter.--Moerdyk.--The
miller-moth.--An ancient ditty.

Chapter VII. Abel goes to school again.--Dame Datchett.--A column of
spelling.--Abel plays moocher.--The miller's man cannot make up his
mind.

Chapter VIII. Visitors at the mill.--A windmiller of the third
generation.--Cure for whooping-cough.--Miss Amabel Adeline Ammaby.--
Doctors disagree.

Chapter IX. Gentry born.--Learning lost.--Jan's bedfellow.--Amabel.

Chapter X. Abel at home.--Jan objects to the miller's man.--The
alphabet.--The Cheap Jack.--"Pitchers".

Chapter XI. Scarecrows and men.--Jan refuses to "make Gearge."--
Uncanny.--"Jan's off."--The moon and the clouds.

Chapter XII. The white horse.--Comrogues.--Moerdyk.--George confides
in the Cheap Jack--with reservation.

Chapter XIII. George as a moneyed man.--Sal.--The "White Horse."--
The wedding.--The windmiller's wife forgets, and remembers too late.

Chapter XIV. Sublunary art.--Jan goes to school.--Dame Datchett at
home.--Jan's first school scrape.--Jan defends himself.

Chapter XV. Willum gives Jan some advice.--The clock face.--The
hornet and the Dame.--Jan draws pigs.--Jan and his patrons.--Kitty
Chuter.--The fight.--Master Chuter's prediction.

Chapter XVI. The mop.--The shop.--What the Cheap Jack's wife had to
tell.--What George withheld.

Chapter XVII. The miller's man at the mop.--A lively companion.--Sal
loses her purse.--The recruiting sergeant.--The pocket-book twice
stolen.--George in the King's Arms.--George in the King's service.--
The letter changes hands, but keeps its secret.

Chapter XVIII. Midsummer holidays.--Child fancies.--Jan and the pig-
minder.--Master Salter at home.--Jan hires himself out.

Chapter XIX. The blue coat.--Pig-minding and tree-studying.--Leaf-
paintings.--A stranger.--Master Swift is disappointed.

Chapter XX. Squire Ammaby and his daughter.--The Cheap Jack does
business once more.--The white horse changes masters.

Chapter XXI. Master Swift at home.--Rufus.--The ex-pig-minder.--Jan
and the schoolmaster.

Chapter XXII. The parish church.--Rembrandt.--The snow scene.--
Master Swift's autobiography.

Chapter XXIII. The white horse in clover.--Amabel and her
guardians.--Amabel in the wood.--Bogy.

Chapter XXIV. The paint-box.--Master Linseed's shop.--The new sign-
board.--Master Swift as Will Scarlet.

Chapter XXV. Sanitary inspectors.--The pestilence.--The parson.--The
doctor.--The squire and the schoolmaster.--Desolation at the
windmill.--The second advent.

Chapter XXVI. The beasts of the village.--Abel sickens.--The good
shepherd.--Rufus plays the philanthropist.--Master Swift sees the
sun rise.--The death of the righteous.

Chapter XXVII. Jan has the fever.--Convalescence in Master Swift's
cottage.--The squire on demoralization.

Chapter XXVIII. Mr. Ford's client.--The history of Jan's father.--
Amabel and Bogy the Second.

Chapter XXIX. Jan fulfils Abel's charge.--Son of the mill.--The
large-mouthed woman.

Chapter XXX. Jan's prospects, and Master Swift's plans.--Tea and
Milton.--New parents.--Parting with Rufus.--Jan is kidnapped.

Chapter XXXI. Screeving.--An old song.--Mr. Ford's client.--The
penny gaff.--Jan runs away.

Chapter XXXII. The baker.--On and on.--The church bell.--A
digression.--A familiar hymn.--The Boys' Home.

Chapter XXXIII. The business man and the painter.--Pictures and pot
boilers.--Cimabue and Giotto.--The salmon-colored omnibus.

Chapter XXXIV. A choice of vocations.--Recreation hour.--The bow-
legged boy.--Drawing by heart.--Giotto.

Chapter XXXV. "Without character?"--The widow.--The bow-legged boy
takes service.--Studios and painters.

Chapter XXXVI. The miller's letter.--A new pot boiler sold.

Chapter XXXVII. Sunshine after storm.

Chapter XXXVIII. A painter's education.--Master Chuter's port.--A
farewell feast.--The sleep of the just.

Chapter XXXIX. George again.--The painter's advice.--"Home-brewed"
at the Heart of Oak.--Jan changes the painter's mind.