Word: skipper
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Prize that Teddy Won" could not fairly be called tragic had it been less skill fully worked out. But one is brought into such sympathy with the hopes and ambitions of the skipper, that one almost wishes he had not cut the sheet...
...Skipper's Tale" is a short war story, related by a Yankee, whose dialect is not always consistent. The not particularly brilliant touch of semiprofanity at the close of the article does not add to its force...