The Purim _Spiel_ or Purim play never took root in England, nor was Haman ever burnt in the streets, but _Shalachmonos_, or gifts of the season, passed between friend and friend, and masquerading parties burst into neighbors' houses.

But the Lane was lively enough on the ordinary Friday and Sunday.

The famous Sunday Fair was an event of metropolitan importance, and thither came buyers of every sect.

The Friday Fair was more local, and confined mainly to edibles.

The Ante-Festival Fairs combined something of the other two, for Jews desired to sport new hats and clothes for the holidays as well as to eat extra luxuries, and took the opportunity of a well-marked epoch to invest in new everythings from oil-cloth to cups and saucers.