One clear-sighted, honest helper is worth a dozen powerful aiders whose main business is to put obstacles in each other's way.

Therewith they plunged into the abodes of misery, where the only other helper at present was good old Miss Slater, who was going from one to another, trying to show helpless women how to nurse, but able only to contribute infinitesimal grains of aid or comfort at immense cost to herself.

Alfred Vail immediately set to work on the apparatus, his only helper being a fifteen-year-old apprentice boy named William Baxter.

He is not sensible of his own want of Strength, when he knows that his Helper is Almighty.

Much the most capable helpers whom the lonely printer had in his first years were two one-time compositors who had turned sailors and who, tiring of foc'sle life under Yankee captains, made up their minds to resume the stick and apron in the cannibal islands.

Hunt's helper was a big stout, loud talking young man named Williams, and he shouted to the leader"Sid Hunt, toot your horn if you don't sell a clam."

His helpers among the praetors and tribunes were Titus Annius Milo and the rest, who brought the proposition before the populace.