The Stake Line
Posted By thecircusblog on September 8, 2011
I can’t tell you how many times I was on the stake line. I did not begrudge it; it surly will keep you in shape. Many of the old tent crews would play a game with a “First of May.” They would take a sixteen pound sledge hammer, hold it at the very end of the handle with their arm straight out, hammer in a vertical position, and slowly bend the wrist, allowing the hammer to fall toward your face. All you had to do is touch your nose with sixteen pounds of steel and bring it back up.
OK, Newcomer, you got it?
There was always a taker. The tent crew made it look so simple. Inevitably, when green help got hired and one was a little cocky, you could bet on him being laid out cold on the……… STAKE LINE.
The story is true, but the tent crew and circus pictured above is unknown to me.
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