And while you're gone it shall be my business to fit the ship with all the supplies we shall need to promote our mission of mercy." "I'll share the expense," proposed the boy.
"No, you won't.

You've done enough in furnishing the ship and crew.

I'll attend to the rest." "And Beth and I will be Uncle John's assistants," said Patsy.

"We shall want heaps of lint and bandages, drugs and liniments and--" "And, above all, a doctor," advised Ajo.

"One of the mates on my yacht, Kelsey by name, is a half-way physician, having studied medicine in his youth and practiced it on the crew for the last dozen years; but what we really need on a hospital ship is a bang-up surgeon." "This promises to become an expensive undertaking," remarked Maud, with a sigh.