The Old Sailing Ships

in The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL, USA)

First serialized as The Weight of Her Burden in Harper's Weekly (New York, NY, USA) (Jun 17, 1905)
Subsequently extracted in The Paterson Daily Press (Paterson, NJ, USA) (Jul 14, 1905)
Subsequently serialized in The Gainesville Daily Sun (Gainesville, FL, USA) (Aug 13, 1905)
Subsequently extracted in The Spartanburg Weekly Herald (Spartanburg, SC, USA) (Nov 28, 1905)
Collected as The Weight of the Burden in The Mirror of the Sea (1906)

p.6. Short extract from "The Weight of Her Burden" serialized in Harper's Weekly on 17 June 1905: "The sailing-ship, when I knew her in her days of perfection, was a sensible creature. When I say her days of perfection, I mean perfection of build, gear, seaworthy qualities and case of handling, not the perfection of speed."

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