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I noted some of the workmen still affixing small retaining rings to some of the stakes, bolting them one on a side, usually about five feet to five and a half feet from the ground. - (Nomads of Gor, Chapter 10, Sentence #194)

The entire aspect was one of color, good cheer, lightheartedness and gaiety. There was something of the sense of carnival in the air. I was forced to remind myself that between these two lines of stakes men would soon fight and die. I noted some of the workmen still affixing small retaining rings to some of the stakes, bolting them one on a side, usually about five feet to five and a half feet from the ground. A workman sprang a pair shut, and then opened them with a key, which he subsequently hung from a tiny hook near the top of the stake. I heard some musicians, come out early from Turia, playing a light tune behind the Turian stakes, about fifty yards or so away. In the space between the two lines of stakes, for each pair of facing stakes, there was a circle of roughly eight yards in diameter. - (Nomads of Gor)