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Illustrator: Frederic Dorr Steele

THE CASTING AWAY OF MRS. LECKS AND MRS. ALESHINE

FRANK R. STOCKTON

NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1903

THE DEVINNE PRESS.

PART I PAGE

DO YOU SEE THAT BOAT THERE? 6

MRS. ALESHINE PROVED TO BE A MORE DIFFICULT SUBJECT 11

WE WILL PULL AFTER THEM 15

STAND UP STRAIGHT, AND DON'T TALK SO MUCH 23

VIGOROUSLY WINKING AND BLOWING 25

THEY GOT ON REMARKABLY WELL 27

THERE'S NOTHIN' LIKE SAUSAGES FOR SHIPWRECK 31

PART II

MRS. LECKS WALKED BOLDLY UP TO THE FRONT DOOR AND PLIED THE KNOCKER 45

I CLIMBED UP ONE OF THE COLUMNS 48

I GUESS YOU'LL BE COMFORTABLE, MR. CRAIG 52

THAT YELLER FROCK 55

MRS. ALESHINE HAD BEEN HARD AT WORK ALL THE MORNING 61

"THERE'S ANOTHER THING," SAID SHE, "THAT I'VE BEEN THINKIN' ABOUT" 67