Italic represented by underscores surrounding the _italic text_. Small capitals have been converted to ALL CAPS. OLIVER CONSTABLE VOL. II. OLIVER CONSTABLE MILLER AND BAKER BY SARAH TYTLER AUTHOR OF ‘CITOYENNE JACQUELINE’ ‘SCOTCH FIRS’ ETC. _IN THREE VOLUMES_ VOL. II. LONDON SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE 1880 [_All rights reserved_] CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. CHAPTER PAGE XI. OLIVER CULTIVATES JACK DADD 1 XII. HARRY STANHOPE’S NOTION OF BEING A YEOMAN 27 XIII. OLIVER’S MISSION TO THE WOMEN OF HIS CLASS 56 XIV. THE FIRST ATTEMPT 76 XV. THE ANNUAL EXCURSION 101 XVI. THE MIDDLE AND END OF THE FEAST 127 XVII. AGNETA STANHOPE 147 XVIII. OLIVER’S LECTURE ON WORDSWORTH 165 XIX. AN ILLUSION 194 XX. OLIVER CAUSES A SPLIT IN THE CHAPEL CONNECTION BECAUSE OF HIS DOGGED OPPOSITION TO HARTLEY, NORRIS, AND CO. 221 XXI. MUTINY IN THE MILL AND THE BAKEHOUSE 253 XXII. A REFORMER’S REWARD 272 OLIVER CONSTABLE, _MILLER AND BAKER_. CHAPTER XI. OLIVER CULTIVATES JACK DADD. Oliver was happy enough to discover, in the course of an evening call which Jack Dadd paid at the mill-house, that Jack had turned his mind a little in the direction of the rearing of vegetables, and the training and bearing of fruit trees. He had a voice in making the best of his father’s garden. His own name had appeared in the list of successful competitors at the Horticultural Show. ‘Your blockhead of a gardener is making a mess of these artichokes, and your medlar don’t carry half the crop it ought to;’ Jack found fault in his free and easy style, as Oliver and he were strolling in the garden, while Fan sat in solitary dignity within doors.