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Now, if one faces the board till the bugle blows, there is not then enough time for him to recite, and he is said to have "bugled it."

From The Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, first graduate of color from the U. S. Military Academy by Flipper, Henry Ossian