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[Illustration: "'_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_
[Illustration]
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 PUBLISHING CO.