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Excerpt from Yarns: Stray Memories of 50 YearsThe large mess-room, which could completely seat 150 boys, was on the lower deck of the Britannia and was heated by three steam radiators, the supply pipes of which ran along overhead. Cadets joined the Britannia in batches every half-year and, as their stay was two years, there were always four batches, or terms, on board at one time. These were known as Cheeky News, Cheeky Threes, Plucky Nines, and Passing Outs.The terms Cheeky Threes and Plucky Nines were survivals of the time when new batches joined every three months. The second-term boys had been there only three months and the word Cheeky was obviously applied. The Plucky Nines were the boys who had been in the Britannia nine months, the adjective being added because a certain third term had won a combat with the fourth. After wards, when the time in the Britannia was extended two years, the names stuck.Each term had its own table and its own heater, but as there were only three radiators the Cheeky News were given the overhead steam-pipes to com fort themselves with on a cold day. The cadet law was very strict and at times arbitrary, but what upset things very much was the irregularity of the numbers of cadets entering the Britannia every half year.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.