# Timmy Willie — Short Fiction character guide

> Timmy Willie in Short Fiction by Beatrix Potter.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Willie, Timmy

**First appearance:** 0019-the-tale-of-johnny-town-mouse

## Snapshot

A tidy country mouse who trades his quiet garden for a town mouse's larder and discovers that city life is not the adventure he imagined.

## Who they are

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 canaries, kittens, and lawn-mowers—delights that prove overwhelming rather than inviting—and he longs for the peace of home. His cheerful insistence that Johnny would love the country, and Johnny's equal certainty about town, sets up the story's gentle truth: one place suits one person, another place suits another.

## In the story

### [The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_7_se/chapters/the-tale-of-johnny-town-mouse)

A country mouse who accidentally goes to town in a hamper and later returns home, preferring the peaceful garden life.

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