while sto lat 's night life was not as colourful and full of incident as that of ankh-morpork , in the same way that a wastepaper basket can not compete with a municipal tip , the streets were nevertheless a-bustle with people and shrill with the cries of hucksters , gamblers , sellers of sweetmeats , pea-and-thimble men , ladies of assignation , pickpockets and the occasional honest trader who had wandered in by mistake and could n't now raise enough money to leave .