Puffy Benger, remembered in Galahad Threepwood's memoirs in Summer Lightning and Heavy Weather as Gaily Stale's accomplice in the theft of old Wivenhoe's pig in '95 at Hammers Easton; the pig was coated with phosphorus and left at Plug Basham's bedside at 2 AM to take him out of himself when he had been brooding on something for several days. Then they beat the gong and the experience gave Plug Basham all the fresh interests he could do with. Had a niece named Myrtle who he claimed could play Chopin's Funeral March in 48 seconds. Remembered by Gaily in Galahad at Blandings as a member of the old Pelican Club in the '90's, a keen golfer who got irretrievably hooked into marriage because in a careless moment he allowed a girl to lure him into reading "Pale Hands I Loved Beside the Shalimar" to her. Now the father of a son with adenoids and two daughters with braces on their teeth.

• Summer Lightning
• Heavy Weather
• Galahad at Blandings