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Show Famous Fleet Street. A modern writer has called Fleet . street the "Street of Adventure," and the name is a good one, writes A. A. Methley, in "A Child's Guide to London," Lon-don," for here all the news of the worM Is gathered together, and the strip of sky overhead Is crisscrossed with the telegraph and telephone wires that bring tidings of warfare . . . victories, revolutions, and marvelous Inventions and discoveries. The road certainly deserves its picturesque pic-turesque title, but, in medieval times when, as Froissart says, the Londoners were the perilousest people irf the world, and the most outrageousest, the name would have been even more appropriate. ap-propriate. Then the adventures themselves them-selves actually took place here; and again and again in history we find wild stories of tumults ... fought out on the rough "cobblestones of old "Flete Stfete." |