# Short Fiction — Character guide

> Key figures in Short Fiction by Beatrix Potter.

- [Pigling Bland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/pigling_bland.md): Pigling Bland is a polite, slightly anxious young pig whose journey to market goes sideways almost immediately, leaving him dependent on the dubious hospitality of Mr. Peter Thomas Piperson. Told not to meddle and threat
- [Mr. Tod](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/mr_tod.md): Mr. Tod is the absent owner of a shockingly filthy house among the rocks, littered with rabbit bones, chicken legs, and other things that should have been buried. His long-running feud with Tommy Brock turns his home int
- [Peter Rabbit](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/peter_rabbit.md): Peter is one of four rabbit children living in a sandbank under a fir-tree, and the only one who ignores Mrs. Rabbit's order to stay out of Mr. McGregor's garden — where his father, she reminds them, ended up in a pie. H
- [Mr. Jeremy Fisher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/mr_jeremy_fisher.md): Mr. Jeremy Fisher lives in a damp little house among the buttercups, untroubled by wet feet and pleased by rain, and he sets out with rod, basket, and macintosh to catch minnows for his dinner guests. His composure frays
- [Jemima Puddle-duck](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/jemima_puddle_duck.md): Frustrated by the farmer's wife taking her eggs, Jemima Puddle-duck sets out to find a quiet nesting place and is charmed by a bushy-tailed gentleman who offers his woodshed, already heaped with feathers, and promises to
- [Duchess](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/duchess.md): Duchess arrives for dinner and eats through the mouse pie with alarming speed, four servings and counting, while Ribby watches and butters her fifth muffin. When Duchess begins fumbling for the patty-pan she insists held
- [Tom Kitten](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/tom_kitten.md): Tom is the bold, disobedient kitten of Tabitha Twitchit, forever scrambling into places he shouldn't be while his sisters stay neatly buttoned and beribboned. His fall through the attic floor delivers him to Samuel Whisk
- [Benjamin Bunny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/benjamin_bunny.md): Benjamin is the son of the formidable old Mr. Benjamin Bunny, and he lures Peter back into the garden with a sack and a scheme to recover Peter's lost clothes and steal a handkerchief of onions. His confidence crumbles o
- [Timmy Willie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/timmy_willie.md): Timmy Willie lives contentedly in the country, where cows are harmless and grass clippings make a fine bed, until he accidentally travels to town in a hamper of vegetables and meets Johnny Town-mouse. The town offers him
- [Tommy Brock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/tommy_brock.md): Tommy Brock is the badger whose squatting habits and shameless appetite make him Mr. Tod's perpetual adversary, and whose fondness for rabbit pie draws him into the affairs of Benjamin Bunny's family. He is slow, sly, an
- [Ribby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/ribby.md): Ribby is a genteel, house-proud dog who keeps her best china, her pink-and-white pie-dish, and her opinions about Cousin Tabitha Twitchit's cats in careful order. She bakes a tender mouse-and-bacon pie for Duchess and se
- [Lucinda](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/lucinda.md): Lucie is a small girl in a pinafore whose pocket-handkins keep vanishing, so she follows a trail of tiny wet footprints up the hill behind Little-town to a door set straight into the rock. Inside she meets Mrs. Tiggy-win
- [Thomasina Tittlemouse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/thomasina_tittlemouse.md): Mrs. Tittlemouse keeps her sandy passage, pantry, and nut-cellar in scrupulous order, and she expects the same of everyone who crosses her threshold. Her compulsion for tidiness collides with the appetites of uninvited g
- [Mrs. Tabitha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/mrs_tabitha.md): Tabitha Twitchit has invited friends to tea and has dressed Tom Kitten and Mittens in their best, only to discover them naked on the wall after the Puddle-ducks make off with the clothes. Affronted and out of time, she s
- [Mr. McGregor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/mr_mcgregor.md): Mr. McGregor works his vegetable beds with his back turned, but he misses nothing—he catches sight of Peter Rabbit at the corner and turns the lost jacket and shoes into a scarecrow for the blackbirds. He is less a villa
- [Mr. Peter Thomas Piperson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/mr_peter_thomas_piperson.md): Mr. Piperson offers Pigling Bland a rug to sleep on and porridge in the morning, then warns him not to meddle with anything or he'll come back and skin him. He locks up his cottage, keeps his meal chest accounted for, an
- [Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/mrs_tiggy_winkle.md): Mrs. Tiggy-winkle lives behind a door in the hill at Cat Bells, where she washes and irons the small brown coats, moleskin waistcoats, and shrunk blue jackets of half the countryside. Her brown, soap-wrinkled hands and h
- [Mr. Jackson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/mr_jackson.md): Mr. Jackson arrives at Mrs. Tittlemouse's door with a cheerful 'Tiddly, widdly, widdly' and a nose for honey, then proceeds to poke through her cupboards, pantry, and larder in search of it. He snaps up Babbitty Bumble, 
- [Mittens](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/mittens.md): Mittens is one of Tabitha Twitchit's kittens, sister to Moppet and Tom, and she is discovered trembling inside a dairy jar while the household searches for a thief. Her breathless account of an enormous rat who made off 
- [Moppet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/moppet.md): Moppet is one of Tabitha Twitchit's daughters, and she is the first to raise the alarm when the dough pan is raided. Too frightened to peek out of the barrel again, she can only stammer her report, so the mothers keep he
- [Simpkin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/simpkin.md): Simpkin lives with the tailor of Gloucester, holds the teapot, and sulks when the old man frees the mice he had trapped. His resentment curdles into a small cruelty: he hides the twist of silk the tailor needs to finish 
- [Squirrel Nutkin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/squirrel_nutkin.md): Nutkin is one of the squirrels who paddle to Owl Island each day to fill their sacks with nuts, but while his brothers and cousins offer fat minnows, beetles, and honey, he offers only impertinent rhymes. Old Brown takes
- [Timmy Tiptoes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/timmy_tiptoes.md): Timmy Tiptoes is a married squirrel whose careful hoarding leads him into a hollow tree where he becomes too plump to squeeze back out. His wife, Goody Tiptoes, calls down through the hole and he kisses her through it, b
- [Old Brown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/old_brown.md): Old Brown is the owl whose island the squirrels visit each day to gather nuts, and he receives their gifts with one eye open and no word of thanks. He takes no interest in riddles, not even when the answer is provided, b
- [Tom Thumb](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/tom_thumb.md): Tom Kitten is the missing child of Tabitha Twitchit's unruly brood, a curious wanderer who discovers a hidden world of rafters and cobwebs behind the wainscot. His fall into Samuel Whiskers' bed turns him from a naughty 
- [Flopsy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/flopsy.md): Flopsy is the daughter of Peter Rabbit and mother to six perpetually drowsy bunnies who nap in Mr. McGregor's rubbish heap. When her children are stuffed into a sack and carried off, she and Benjamin Bunny must act fast,
- [Alexander](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/alexander.md): Alexander is the carefree brother whose love of amusement makes him late for market and careless with his precious travel papers. When Pigling Bland discovers Alexander's paper in his own pocket and races back to find hi
- [Goody](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/goody.md): Goody Tiptoes is a worried wife in a community of squirrels where husbands are prone to disappearing into hollow trees with their stores of nuts. Her concern for Timmy's safety and her suspicion of his evasions give the 
- [Johnny Town-Mouse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/johnny_town_mouse.md): Johnny Town-Mouse is the sophisticated cousin who arrives in the countryside full of news about seaside holidays, spring cleaning, and a canary killed by the cat. He samples rural life with polite skepticism, declaring t
- [Samuel Whiskers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/samuel_whiskers.md): Samuel Whiskers is the patriarch of the rats infesting Tabitha Twitchit's old house, a snuff-taking schemer who finds Tom Kitten in his bed and decides to make him into a roly-poly pudding. His domestic partnership with 
- [Old Mr. Bouncer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/old_mr_bouncer.md): A pipe-smoking rabbit grandfather left in charge of his grandbabies, whose fondness for gossip and cabbage-leaf cigars proves catastrophically distracting.
- [Hunca Munca](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/hunca_munca.md): A house-mouse burglar with a frugal heart, who raids a dollhouse with her husband and salvages what she can for their own bare nest.
- [Miss Moppet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/miss_moppet.md): A kitten who feigns illness to lure a mocking mouse within reach, then learns that teasing cuts both ways.
- [Anna Maria](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/anna_maria.md): A mouse with light fingers and a heavy conscience, whose habit of pocketing shop goods keeps her household in cream crackers and suspicion.
- [Pickles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/pickles.md): A terrier shopkeeper whose customers eat him out of stock without paying, leaving him one licence short of the law.
- [Pig-wig](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/pig_wig.md): A little fat pig met on the road to market, whose cheerful company turns a dutiful pig's journey into something far more dangerous and dear.
- [Mrs. Flopsy Bunny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/mrs_flopsy_bunny.md): A young rabbit who is part of the Flopsy Bunnies.
- [Jane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/jane.md): A doll whose house is invaded by mice.
- [Old Mrs. Rabbit](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/old_mrs_rabbit.md): Peter Rabbit's mother.
- [Cock Robin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/characters/cock_robin.md): A bird mentioned in the story of Ginger and Pickles.

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