A seaman telling the ship's doctor that hard work is bad for him. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1898.

Dialogue includes: Fleet surgeon. "There doesn't seem much wrong with you, my man. What's the matter?" A.B. "Well, sir, it's like this, sir. I eats well, an' I drinks well, an' I sleeps well; but when I sees a job of work - there, I'm all a tremble!"