During the lectures he distinguished himself by making inimitable caricatures, for which he was sometimes taken to task by the authorities.

Also he could not help poking fun at the examiners in the papers themselves.

Asked, "Do you know why so-and-so, and so-and-so ?" Baden-Powell would write an interrogative "No." After distinguishing himself in this way, B.-P.

came back to England, in order to go through the Musketry Course at Hythe.

Here he did equally well, taking a First Class Extra Certificate, and a year after we find him as Musketry Instructor at Quetta.