Ellet

With these wooden rams, without cannon, and without an armed crew, Colonel Ellet proposed to attack and destroy the whole fleet.

Colonel Ellet fell with a ball through the knee; but as he lay on the deck, he continued to direct the fight.

And then her mother would say, turning to the company, “How very fond Mr. Ellet is of a joke!”

Whether old Mr. Ellet was satisfied with her physical and mental progress, Ruth had no means of knowing.

“I thought that stroke would tell,” said the doctor, laughing, as Mr. Ellet closed the door.