Transcriber's Notes:

Blank pages have been eliminated.

Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in theoriginal.

A few typographical errors have been corrected.

The cover page was created by the transcriber and can be considered public domain.


"'Cast me not off in the time of old age, forsake me not when mystrength 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 Publishing Co.

Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, England

All rights reserved

THE OUTING PRESS
DEPOSIT, N. Y.