Master Sweepstakes, with anxiety, examined the hit. There could be no doubt. Ben was victorious! The bow, the prize bow, was now delivered to him; and Hal, as he looked at the whip-cord exclaimed, “How lucky this whip-cord has been to you, Ben!”
“It is lucky, perhaps you mean, that he took care of it,” said Mr. Gresham.
“Ay,” said Hal, “very true; he might well say, ‘Waste not, want not.’ It is a good thing to have two strings to one’s bow.”
OLD POZ.
Lucy, daughter to the Justice.
Mrs. Bustle, landlady of the “Saracen’s Head.”
Justice Headstrong.
Old Man.
William, a Servant.