Excerpt from Jan of the Windmill: A Story of the Plains

This tale appeared in a serial form in "Aunt Judy's Magazine" in the year 1873, under the title of "The Miller's Thumb." As this name has been objected to, I have changed it: but to one which cannot mislead any who has read the tale into thinking that it is a new one. It has been thoroughly revised.

It may obviate some possible misapprehension if I say that this story was more or less suggested to me by hearing that Constable, the great Wiltshire landscape painter, was wont to boast of his miller's thumb, but that no other incident of my hero's history has any other foundation in the life of this or any other artist.

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