Characters
- Alan, nephew of Barnaby
- Jane, his sister
- Uncle Barnaby, a rich miser
- The Widow Piper, a widow with fourteen children
- Tom Tom, her eldest son
- Contrary Mary, her eldest daughter
- Little Bo-Peep
- Jack and Jill
- Peter
- Tommy Tucker
- Sallie Waters
- Little Miss Muffet
- Curly Locks
- Red Riding Hood
- Bobby Shaftoe
- Simple Simon
- Boy Blue
- Hilda, the Widow Piper's maid
- Grumio, apprentice to the Master Toymaker
- Gonzorgo, a ruffian
- Roderigo, his partner
- Inspector Marmaduke, of the Toyland Police
- The Master Toymaker
- The Spirit of the Pine
- The Spirit of the Oak
- The Moth Queen
- Gertrude, a peasant
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Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)