Ten Months' Work in Military Employ

How well I remember my father endeavouring to dissuade me from entering tbe I. M. 8. One of tbe arguments be used was tbat during tbe time one bad to serve with a regiment so little opportunity was tbere of practising one's profession, I bat, unless by an effort of will one strove to keep up to date by reading in surroundings not at all conducive to work, one would degenerate into a being devoid of all professional interest and become a disappointed pessimistic failure. Fortunately my experience lias not justified this gloomy outlook. At practically no period of my service which now comprises 8b years beyond an occasional short interval, have 1 bad to grumble at my lot .and want of professional work. Tbe reason I write of the last 10 months is that it is just JO months since I returned from leave and a period during which I have kept a somewhat more careful record of my work than usual. Although from a surgical standpoint the record cannot dream of comparing with that of any one in our presidency towns ; it, I feel sure, compares favourably with that of one in the mofussil.