Friend and Foe;
OR, THE
BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
[CHAPTER I.]
SMALL LEAKS.
"You'll never succeed, Ned!" cried Bessy Peele, with a little laugh, as she stood watching her maimed brother's attempts to write a letter.
Twice, the wind coming through the cottage door had sent his paper fluttering to the ground. Ned had raised it, and then tried to fix it by placing a pebble upon it, but the paper had slipped from under the pebble as soon as the sailor had begun to write.
"It's not much," continued Bessy, "that a one-armed man can do."