OLIVER CONSTABLE VOL. I.

OLIVER CONSTABLE MILLER AND BAKER BY SARAH TYTLER AUTHOR OF ‘CITOYENNE JACQUELINE’ ‘SCOTCH FIRS’ ETC. IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. I. LONDON SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE 1880 [All rights reserved]

TO MARGARET

MOTHER AND SISTER IN ONE: LOVING AND FAITHFUL FELLOW-WORKER WHOSE EAGER INTEREST IN THIS STORY PROVED ITS AUTHOR’S GREATEST ENCOURAGEMENT IN WRITING IT: WHOSE DEATH BEFORE THE STORY WAS FINISHED DARKENED LIFE AND WORK TO ONE SOLITARY WORKER

IN HOPE OF THE TIMES OF RESTITUTION OF ALL THINGS Oxford: 17th April 1880

CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Friarton Mill 1

II. Oliver Constable’s Return 23

III. Oliver’s Announcement 54

IV. A Hot Argument 86

V. A Last Appeal 112

VI. Louisa and Catherine Hilliard 136

VII. How Mrs. Hilliard and Catherine Judged the last St. George of Friarton 167

VIII. Oliver’s Proclamation in the Mill and the Bakehouse 193

IX. The New Tenants of Copley Grange Farm 227

X. Oliver’s Notion of Good Citizenship 274

OLIVER CONSTABLE, MILLER AND BAKER.