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Show Famous Old Petticoat Lane Awakens From Long Sleep With Coming of Warmer Weather, District Is Again Humming With Full Quota of Life, Trade and Dirt. ONDON, May 10. (Correspondence Lof The Asrociatod Fress.) Potti-co-L Une has awakened from its long sleep, imposed by the war and the rigors of an unusually wet win-tor, win-tor, and with tho eomin of spring fairly hums with life, trade and dirt. Peitloct Une Is more of a district ,h a snloi. tor these are a nunil -t-eei and each one carries the sanK nlarkei and the same njot V frowd son "known a the E Knrt JJjjc rov.nlty and others have rerfntl c lsco pn-ri there are sums which are a 'J.v ?ro to England, iu fact to a!l clvihza-tion. clvihza-tion. Petticoat Ir.e Is llnod ""f- of th. ni covered, some of them open lo be ln-1u!d I" a wl.lcl. sre trh l o n scfOnd-l::ind underwear lo cheap Ju Mr . The old .-lollies man occupies he ,-om-prlpdi.K poMtlon nlr,.t directly opic-" opic-" "f Mt f.lveroool street prt.s-.--np. -"atlo ?nd !. of his prices Voul do ,,s co to s- nic of the mirt V. .-X i ops. bt T.rlccs ,nd sales are ,y ho ; ,n e th'.n in IVIUcoat I.nn If th'-sMkv th'-sMkv cannot get his price he is always willing: to come dowr. and if trade hap- ; pens to be slow he will mount a box and ' offer his stock to the highest bidder. Trn.n ! eomey out all the wit and humor of the throne, with the auctioneer usually leading lead-ing in sarcastic sallies. "Art china," fearfully and won .forfully made; nun and women's neck weeir iri all tho colors of the rainbow; fried fi?h fresh from tho pklllet; pictures, framed and nn-franied nn-franied and prized because of their hlph color; ice cream nr.d siiavins powder, with a liberal r.orttnent of hatr brwhes and si i spend ers; money belt s. Mons ribbon? rib-bon? and the insiirnia of every reuinieiu in the British army. Thse and a thousand thou-sand and ore other thines lino the street on each stile, their leather-lunged sellers iia-usinp only in their apnea's for trade to make the necessary chance. One section of the Kane is priven oer to the man who it there to hen! the sick a-.d af'licted. lie- usually specializes in some particular disease. His appeals are supported sup-ported by an open bottle of his partieUUr medicine", and for n. penny one may sample- the remedv and kuo-v for himpeH whether be wants a boi tie. And it is urprisinc how many holtb-s are .eld from the samples, on which the tbriirv "do,--tor" makes much more profit than he d.-e-s on the larper amcunt. Vot i':iv from tlie l.ano iiroper i? tbo "Mvesiock" market as tney call il, ;n Club K"w. H'jre one can buy pome r.t tee be.it dors" that h ve m st '-rionj-h' cis.T pi-.if--d from the fashionable s-tio: of the city during- tho pi'V-O1 fck. |