Excerpt from Down Petticoat Lane The setting is a garden along Petticoat Lane. A white picket fence with arched opening in the center, covered with lavender Wisteria or pink rambler roses, runs across the back of the stage, separating the lane from the gar den. Down front on either side are two boxwood trees. A white stone bench stands near one of them. A pair of steps leads down from the garden into the audience. Along this lane, through the opening and into the garden stroll American girls in fashions of yesterday and to-day. Each parades across the stage with step and manner that become her gown, and then exits down the center aisle bowing to the audience as she goes. A few pause a moment before the footlights to sing or to dance or perhaps to do a stunt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.