the end yo-yo 's weekend david brining copyright david brining 2012 smashwords edition featuring : yo-yo , a teenage ginger-nut mister vanilla , a forty-stone jewel thief and criminal mastermind uncle reefer , a bored boarding-house manager aunty latch , his wife lily gusset , a reverse cross-dresser katze , the kab driver mrs lollipop , a bed-ridden widow baby , a talking blackbird doctor molasses , a medical man matron majeiski , ooh matron venus periwinkle , yo-yo 's mother from the wildcat circus truss , the circus manager thyme , the ring-mistress rue , the painted lady and thyme 's sister ruff , a ball-bouncing bear dax and jax , identical twins in a hall of mirrors catkin silver , the yuman cannonball the lettuce brothers , chicory , endive , kos , rocket , the clowns the czech mates , jezdec , strelec and vez , chess-playing trapeze artists jungle-juiced jake , a decrepit lion-tamer brian , a decrepit lion the people of york constable kipper , a beat policeman sigurd the skull-splitter , a viking chieftain a ghost walker martin mizzenmast , a schoolboy and chorister and not a buttock-barer wee jocko mctavish , a professional scotsman eleazar glenn , the two-hundred year old ghost of a six-year old child king richard iii , pub signboard , waxwork and king of england from 1483 until 1485 william etty r.a. , a victorian painter turned statue constantine the great , a fourth century roman emperor turned statue wackem thrashboy , a victorian schoolmaster the severed head of sir thomas percy , seventh duke of northumberland podgemeister and the twiglet , brothers ( or a rock band .