cannon-lifter

Updated: June 8, 2025

Visit the first half-dozen circuses that may come to town, and ask the managers whether the cannon-lifter or the general performer has the better health. You will find in every case it is the latter. Ask the doctors whether the cartmen, who are the strongest men in the city, have better health than other classes, who, like them, work in the open air, but with light and varied labor.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862