The boy in his rocking horse represents hope for the future and growing up in a square which charts Britain's military past.

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Some tokens are long gone, among them the lantern, cannon and rocking horse.

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The little plaintiff or defendant who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world.

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