 A ceramicist who lives in the fictional city of Buntingdowndale in England specializes in making ceramic replicas of mice.One night he gets drunk at a party and comes home intending to make the best mouse figurine he has ever made.With his senses impaired, he inadvertently makes a mouse-like figure described as having a "fat little body like an opossum, hind feet like those of a kangaroo, the front paws of a monkey, and instead of delicate and transparent ears, these were long and much like those of a rabbit.