Characters include Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard, relentlessly nagging her two dead husbands; Captain Cat, reliving his seafaring times; the two Mrs. Dai Breads; Organ Morgan, obsessed with his music; and Polly Garter, pining for her dead lover, No-Good Boyo, Mr Waldo, Butcher Beynon and his lovely daughter Gossamer, longed for by Sampson of the Sailors Arms.