The second great ordeal of the “snooker.”

Naval & Military Gazette and Weekly Chronicle of the United Service, Saturday 05 September 1863

A quarter of an hour after morning Academy there is a parade for drill, when the Cadets are again inspected by the officer on duty, and this is the second great ordeal of the “snooker.” If he passes muster at this, he may count with tolerable certainty upon getting through the rest of the day unpunished. The Cadets, on joining, are put through the ordinary recruit drill, and after mastering the mysteries of “forming fours,” &c., and having been drilled as a company, they are dismissed as fit to join in the ordinary Battalion drill. In their second term they are taught field gun drill with the battery of three-pounders belonging to the company, and generally also mortar drill.