Rowing
"A boat, a boat, is the toy for me, To rollic about in on river and sea; To be a child of the breeze and the gale, And like a wild bird on the deep to sail, This is the life for me!"--Procter.
Hop-scotch to hare-and-hounds, conjuring to chemistry, rabbits to rowing — the complete Victorian repertoire of things for a boy to do, set down with rules and diagrams.
"A boat, a boat, is the toy for me, To rollic about in on river and sea; To be a child of the breeze and the gale, And like a wild bird on the deep to sail, This is the life for me!"--Procter.