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_Theatre-Trollopes-Mrs Trollope's Work-Customhouse Officer-Race-course- Westhouses Breeding Stud-Thunderstorm-Return to the Hotel-Excursion to Long Island-New town-Flushing-Agriculture in the neighbourhood of New York._
Miss Fanny Kemble taking her benefit on the night of our arrival, it was determined that we should visit the Park theatre. We found the house well attended, the ladies greatly outnumbering the gentlemen in the boxes, while the pit contained males only, apparently belonging to what is known in England by the operative classes, amongst whom people of colour were seen. Having peeped into Mrs Trollope's work on the Domestic Manners of the Americans, and its illustrations of those witnessed at the Cincinnati theatre recurring to memory, I watched the behaviour of the audience.