# Just William — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Just William by Richmal Crompton.

- [William Goes to the Pictures](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/just_william_se/chapters/i-william-goes-to-the-pictures.md): William receives a shilling from his aunt and decides to spend it on sweets and a trip to the Picture Palace. He watches a series of films, including a crime drama, love stories, a comedy, and a tragic tale of a drunkard
- [William the Intruder](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/just_william_se/chapters/ii-william-the-intruder.md): Robert's romantic picnic with Miss Cannon is disastrously interrupted when William, having secretly learned to ride Robert's new bicycle while blacked up as a 'Red Hand' Indian, crashes through their picnic and into the 
- [III: William Below Stairs](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/just_william_se/chapters/iii-william-below-stairs.md): William Brown, feeling embittered after a series of punishments and confiscations, decides to run away to seek his fortune in the goldfields. After a tiring journey, he is mistaken for the new Boots at a grand house and 
- [IV: The Fall of the Idol](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/just_william_se/chapters/iv-the-fall-of-the-idol.md): William develops a crush on his teacher Miss Drew, leading him to steal hothouse flowers from his own garden to impress her, then later break into a stranger's house to steal syringa. His infatuation causes him to feign 
- [The Show](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/just_william_se/chapters/v-the-show.md): The Outlaws, bored with their usual activities, decide to put on a show to raise money for bows and arrows. They assemble a motley collection of exhibits including a painted rat, a furious cat, a makeshift giant, a stuff
- [A Question of Grammar](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/just_william_se/chapters/vi-a-question-of-grammar.md): William, bored on a rainy day, is rebuffed by his family and decides to throw a party while they are away. Using a grammar lesson about double negatives, he tricks his father into giving permission. He invites thirty cla
- [William Joins the Band of Hope](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/just_william_se/chapters/vii-william-joins-the-band-of-hope.md): William is coerced by his mother into attending a Band of Hope meeting run by the insufferably patronizing Mrs. de Vere Carter. He and his friends Henry, Douglas, and Ginger are all forced to attend, suffering through he
- [VIII: The Outlaws](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/just_william_se/chapters/viii-the-outlaws.md): On a half-holiday, William is forced by his mother to take a neighbor's baby out in a perambulator. He instead kidnaps the baby to the Outlaws' barn, where the baby ruins the group's food supplies by drenching itself in 
- [William and White Satin](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/just_william_se/chapters/ix-william-and-white-satin.md): William is forced to be a page at his cousin Sybil's wedding, dressed in white satin, which he sees as a humiliation. He rebels but ultimately yields to parental authority. His cousin Dorita and her little brother Michae
- [William's New Year's Day](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/just_william_se/chapters/x-william-s-new-year-s-day.md): William Brown takes on a New Year's resolution to be polite, leading to a series of comedic events including minding Mr. Moss's sweet shop, a battle with local boys, and Mr. Moss's annual proposal to his sweetheart.
- [The Best Laid Plans](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/just_william_se/chapters/xi-the-best-laid-plans.md): William Brown agrees to help Mr. French woo his sister Ethel in exchange for white rats. He feigns illness to get out of shopping, then uses the rats to create chaos—first in church, then in Ethel's bedroom. Mr. French b
- [I](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/just_william_se/chapters/i.md): William feigns illness to avoid walking home, leading to Mr. French carrying him. Mr. French, infatuated with Ethel, bribes William with white rats to help him court her. William agrees and later assists Mr. French, culm
- [II](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/just_william_se/chapters/ii.md): William continues his schemes involving Mr. French, the dancing rat Rufus, and the rat Cromwell. After a fair outing funded by hush money from Mr. French, William brings Rufus to church, where it escapes and causes chaos
- [Jumble](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/just_william_se/chapters/xii-jumble.md): William finds a stray dog, Jumble, who follows him home. Despite his family's insistence that he take the dog to the police station, William repeatedly fails to do so, eventually discovering that Jumble belongs to the Ja

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