There were many other cruises, both winter and summer, in the _Wave_ after this, and apparently the weather was more propitious, for we do not hear any more sad wailings about it; though one of the party, on this first occasion, was heard to declare that if he were twenty years in the ship he would not again be caught going for a "pleasure trip" such as this in the winter months. The magazine was not confined to descriptions of this kind, or laudatory articles and accounts of successful sports, etc.--of which more anon--but warnings, editorial and otherwise, on various points of conduct and etiquette are not infrequent. A letter, signed "A Cadet," enlarges on the undesirability of certain prevalent pranks when travelling by rail:-- If the cadets continue to play the fool with the porters, shoot off catapults and squibs at travellers, etc., they will be getting all leave stopped, or a corporal in attendance; or the railway company will refuse to stop the trains at the level, and they will have to walk round from Kingswear Station. This last allusion is to the accommodation of having certain trains stopped opposite the ship for the convenience of officers and cadets. Those who are not acquainted with the locality may not be aware that the railway does not run into Dartmouth, Kingswear, on the opposite side of the harbour, being the terminus. Curiously enough, there is a letter in the same number from an outsider on precisely the same subject over the signature "Old Meddler," who is evidently a somewhat irascible old gentleman residing in Torquay. He concludes his letter as follows:-- I don't know whether corporal punishment has been abolished on board the _Britannia_; probably, like many good things, it has. But I carry a good stout cane myself. This ferocious old boy would, however, have first to "catch his cadet"! The editor takes occasion to remark that "Old Meddler's" letter would not have been inserted but for the corroborative remarks of "A Cadet." Whether or not the double warning was productive of beneficial results is not stated. Probably, as long as the world lasts, boys and young men will continue to exercise their ingenuity in this fashion, to their own gratification and the discomfort of their fellow creatures. It is their nature to! A number of the cadets had been through a course of "first-aid" instruction, under the St. John Ambulance Association, and here is an account of the result:-- A fellow broke his arm up in the field the other day, and the medical staff turned it to splendid account and lectured to a crowded audience over the prostrate body of the wounded cadet. "Now, what do you call this?" "Broken arm, sir!" "How do you know it is broken?" "Because we waggled it about, sir." "Simple or compound fracture?" "Simple, sir." "Why?" "Because he did it so easily, sir!" "What ought I to do?"