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CHAPTER II
 

Sunday School Picnics to Groves - Early Com¬
muters - The "Annexed District," Now the Bronx -
Inspector Byrnes
 

BEFORE the advent of the Bicycle, as I have already
mentioned, the surrounding country-side was not
nearly so accessible to the inhabitants of the city, by any
means, as it is today. There were no good roads and the
only method of reaching them was by walking or by the
old-fashioned buggy. Livery stables abounded but of
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