# The Praying Skipper and Other Stories

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Illustrated by J. C. Leyendecker, W. J. Aylward & Walter Appleton Clark
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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
* CHAPTERPAGE
* I.The Praying Skipper ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................1
* II.A Victory Unforeseen ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................45
* III.Corporal Sweeney, Deserter ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................116
* IV.The Last Pilot Schooner ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................155
* V.The Jade Teapot ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................196
* VI.Captain Arendt's Choice ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................225
* VII.Surfman Brainard's "Day Off" ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................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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