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culture and in business, their ownership or possession has had 
less social significance, and they have had less importance as 
instruments of gambling. The colonists who settled north of 
Delaware Bay, although of various nationalities, were largely 
' ocial educatio 
. . 
ose whose religious prejudices an 
unthrifty ways, even if not open to the objection of positive 
i d 
a unanimous on this point, but many add that what was lost 
n size and beauty was gained in hardiness and other useful 
qualities 
ak century this became ascendant, and string 
f the northern States. 
Sepia ip some way, 
(which meant running), trotting came in 
first. I 
very many thrifty people who were not sports 
4 Measure considered a sort of democratic sport 1n 
Plow-horses could take part. Racing of any kind in those 
