Of course, with returning daylight, the serious work of sledging and the preparations for the spring campaign occupied our attention to the exclusion of almost everything else. On Saturday, the 26th of February, our school assembled for the last time, the classes being dismissed in the evening only to reassemble again if the ship spent another winter away from England. It would not be fair to dismiss our pupils without a word of commendation. Their attendance was most regular, and their efforts to learn beyond all praise. Nothing could exceed their diligence, nor excel their desire to please and reflect credit upon their masters, and I do hope that many will have benefited by the instruction they received in their Arctic school.
On Thursday, the 24th of February, was performed our last dramatic entertainment. The following was the programme.
ROYAL ARCTIC THEATRE.
H.M.S. “Alert.”
Thursday, 24th February, 1876.
Last performance of the season.
Grand Representation
of the
Original pathetico-comico-burlesque operetta entitled the
LITTLE VULGAR BOY,