A spicy (-ish) Tuesday Twopenny Torrid minisode IN WHICH —

0:01:50: BLACK BESS (starring Highwayman Dick Turpin), IN WHICH —:

• CHAPTER 23: Turpin and King arrive at the Hand and Keys Inn as the sun is coming up — just in time — and wake up the ostler to get their horses stabled and cared for. Tom Davis sets out a big breakfast for them. And Dick once again sets to thinking … how is he going to get Black Bess back?
• CHAPTER 24: We learn that the inquest is to be held on the old steward’s son, who shot himself in Room 8 at the Hand and Keys. Turpin reconnects with Ellen, and, while making sure she is happy at the Hand and Keys, tells her he feels that “my rescue of you from A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH is a good action in my life that will outweigh many of the bad ones I have done.” Then he prepares to hide out while the inquest is held.

0:22:30: BROADSIDE STREET BALLAD:

• "The Barber of Seville." Don't be fooled, though — when the REAL Barber of Seville came out in Paris, it became an instant classic. So a Salisbury-square printer, hoping to cash in but not knowing the first thing about The Barber of Seville beyond the title, commissioned one of his house hacks to dash off a poem about a barber in Seville, and put it out there to cash in! It's pretty bad, but the story is funny and the art is great.
• "Gentle Annie," an elegy sung for the memory of a love lost to Death's cruel hand, which if you like you can sing to the tune of "Piano Man" by Billy Joel.

0:24:50: A SALACIOUS SALOON SONG:

• "The Troubles of a Pair of Breeches," a humourous and ribald account in song of an evening on which the singer got so very drunk that his breeches started talking to him and told their life story.

0:30:20: THREE VICTORIAN-AGE DIRTY JOKES.

• From "The Chestnut Club."

Join host Corinthian Finn, a.k.a. Finn J.D. John, for a half-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of old London! Grab a decanter and top off your glass, unload your stumps, and let's go!

GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

• JACK PUDDINGS: Funny fellows, jolly companions.
• HIGH FLYERS: Spirited, audacious, possibly dangerous ladies.
• KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.

• CHAFFING-CRIB: A room where drinking and bantering are going on.

• CHICKSTERS: Flamboyant ladies, often prostitutes
• LADYBIRDS: Another term for chicksters
• BULLY ROCKS: Brothel muscle men
• ABBESS: Brothel madam
• MOTHER H: A famous abbess from the 1830s
• BOLT THE MOON: Fly by night
• BEAKS: Magistrates and judges
• GET FLY TO THE FAKEMENT: Get wise to a swindle that's being perpetrated.
• DUNWICH, TOWN OF (spelled with no "T"): A seacoast town east of London, once very large, which eroded away and fell into the sea starting in the 13th century; only a few streets and houses remain today.

• DUNWITCH, BARONY OF (spelled with a "T"): A small estate in the hills West of Arkham, according to Colonial chronicler H.P. Lovecraft. Does not actually exist, but if it did, would be headed by Finn J.D. John, 18th Baron Dunwitch.
• DUNSANY, BARONY OF: A large estate in Ireland, including Dunsany Castle in County Meath, headed until 1957 by legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.