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Title: The Praying Skipper, and Other Stories

Author: Ralph Delahaye Paine

Illustrator: W. J. Aylward

Walter Appleton Clark

J. C. Leyendecker

Release date: February 3, 2019 [eBook #58817]

Language: English

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"'Cast me not off in the time of old age, forsake me not when my 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, PHILLIPS & CO.

Copyright, 1906, by THE OUTING P