However, as it is, to a man who has neither wife nor riches, it is, I dare say, as good a way of spending life as any other; and I do think that there are but few old surgeons who, on looking back to the life they have led in the navy, would not say of that service,--"With all thy faults I love thee still." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The End. End of Project Gutenberg's Medical Life in the Navy, by Gordon Stables