The Praying Skipper and Other Stories
THE PRAYING SKIPPER
"'Cast me not off in the time of old age, forsake me not when strength faileth.'"
THE PRAYING
SKIPPER
AND OTHER STORIES
BY
RALPH D. PAINE
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
THE OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY
1906
Copyright, 1903, 1905, by Chas. Scribner's Sons
Copyright, 1904, by The Century Co.
Copyright, 1905, by The Outing Publishing Co.
Copyright, 1906, by McClure Philips & Co.
Copyright, 1906, by The Outing Publishing Co.
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, England
All rights reserved
THE OUTING PRESS
DEPOSIT, N. Y.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE I. 1 II. 45 III. 116 IV. 155 V. 196 VI. 225 VII. 259
ILLUSTRATIONS
- "Cast me not off in the time of old age, forsake me not when my strength faileth."
Frontispiece facing
page- "You are a disgrace to Yale, all of you."
45 - Jack Hasting's mother cannot find her boy in the crew
74 - The flight of Corporal Sweeney
118 - The last of the Albatross
182 - As he rose the jagged timber was hurled straight at him
286
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