Tales for the Marines (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Tales for the Marines A favourite amusement of soldiers in the barrack-room is story-telling, or, as Tommy Atkins calls it, "spinning cuffers." The time for telling "cuffers" is after "lights out, " when the barrack-room is in darkness and the men are in bed. The form of procedure is much the same in all regiments. Private Noaks requests Private Stokes to "spin us a cuffer." Stokes calls Attention!" and then says "Boots!" to which the men reply in chorus, "Spurs!" The "cuffer" then begins, the "spinner" testing the interest and wakefulness of his audience by interjecting the word "Boots!" at such intervals as may seem advisable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.