Jan of the Windmill
Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty, 1841-1885
English
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JAN OF THE WINDMILL (A Story of the Plains)
by JULIANA HORATIA EWING.
DEDICATED TO MY DEAR SISTER MARGARET.
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.
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