2.06: Spring-heel'd Jack is busted... or is he? — A man who sees dead people. — More robbers' poetry about the "Brixton Dancing Academy."

A half-hour- long Tuesday Twopenny Terrible Minisode IN WHICH —

0:03:00: ARTICLE from the TERRIFIC REGISTER, Page 12:

• We hear of a Scottish nobleman who's gifted with the Second Sight, whose friends appear before him immediately after death ...

0:07:10: SPRING-HEEL'D JACK, Ch. 15:

• At the small boat, two rough sailors take Ellen Folder from Jack and invite him to climb aboard after them and join them in a glass of grog. Instead, Jack swims back to the barge to retrieve his cloak. There is no sign of the barge guard and Jack hopes he has not drowned.

• Then he is hailed by a trio of river police. They of course are eager to arrest him! Will they succeed? There are three of them and he has been swimming around all night! We shall see …

PLUS —

• Learn the meaning of "strike-me-dead," "red tape," and a few other words of highway-robber slang, and ...
• A thieves' song (so we are told) about the "New Dancing Academy," the treadmill installed at Brixton Prison in 1818.

Join host Finn J.D. John. for a one-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of old London! Grab a flicker of blue ruin, unload your stumps, and let's go!

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