CONTENTS.Chapter I. The windmiller's wife.--Strangers.--Ten shillings aweek.--The little Jan.Chapter II. The miller's calculations.--His hopes and fears.--Thenurse-boy.--Calm.Chapter III. The windmiller's words come true.--The red shawl.--Inthe clouds.--Nursing v. pig-minding.--The round-house.--The miller'sthumb.Chapter IV. Black as slans.--Vair and voolish.--The miller and hisman.Chapter V. The pocket-book and the family bible.--Five pounds'reward.Chapter VI. George goes courting.--George as an enemy.--George as afriend.--Abel plays schoolmaster.--The love-letter.--Moerdyk.--Themiller-moth.--An ancient ditty.Chapter VII. Abel goes to school again.--Dame Datchett.--A column ofspelling.--Abel plays moocher.--The miller's man cannot make up hismind.Chapter VIII. Visitors at the mill.--A windmiller of the thirdgeneration.--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.--Thealphabet.--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 confidesin 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 athome.--Jan's first school scrape.--Jan defends himself.Chapter XV. Willum gives Jan some advice.--The clock face.--Thehornet and the Dame.--Jan draws pigs.--Jan and his patrons.--KittyChuter.--The fight.--Master Chuter's prediction.Chapter XVI. The mop.--The shop.--What the Cheap Jack's wife had totell.--What George withheld.Chapter XVII. The miller's man at the mop.--A lively companion.--Salloses her purse.--The recruiting sergeant.--The pocket-book twicestolen.--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 doesbusiness once more.--The white horse changes masters.Chapter XXI. Master Swift at home.--Rufus.--The ex-pig-minder.--Janand the schoolmaster.Chapter XXII. The parish church.--Rembrandt.--The snow scene.--Master Swift's autobiography.Chapter XXIII. The white horse in clover.--Amabel and herguardians.--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.--Thedoctor.--The squire and the schoolmaster.--Desolation at thewindmill.--The second advent.Chapter XXVI. The beasts of the village.--Abel sickens.--The goodshepherd.--Rufus plays the philanthropist.--Master Swift sees thesun rise.--The death of the righteous.Chapter XXVII. Jan has the fever.--Convalescence in Master Swift'scottage.--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.--Thelarge-mouthed woman.Chapter XXX. Jan's prospects, and Master Swift's plans.--Tea andMilton.--New parents.--Parting with Rufus.--Jan is kidnapped.Chapter XXXI. Screeving.--An old song.--Mr. Ford's client.--Thepenny gaff.--Jan runs away.Chapter XXXII. The baker.--On and on.--The church bell.--Adigression.--A familiar hymn.--The Boys' Home.Chapter XXXIII. The business man and the painter.--Pictures and potboilers.--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 boytakes 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.--Afarewell 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.