title: Six Shakespeare Stories (New Windmills)
author:  Leon Garfield 
description: One of a series which offers classic and contemporary fiction for schools to suit a range of ages and tastes this book contains adaptations of "Macbeth", "Romeo and Juliet", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Twelfth Night", "The Merchant of Venice" and "The Tempest".
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  # Jan of the Windmill
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Juliana Horatia Ewing
  
  
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  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 SCHOOL-MASTER.—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 WINDM