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Sport as a pursuit was unknown. Boat-racing came after 1850. For horse-racing, only the trotting-course existed. Of all pleasures, winter sleighing was still the gayest and most popular. From none of these amusements could the boy learn anything likely to be of use to him in the world. On the whole he learned most then.
This is the mid- afternoon effect of the Avenue; but later in the day, and well into the dusk, it remembers its former gayety as a trotting-course, with here and there a spider-wagon, a twinkling-footed mare, and a guttural driver.
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