A musical play set on a kitchen dresser. While the Big Ones are asleep, plenty pf activity is taking place on the kitchen dresser. The cuckoo-clock cuckoo has lost his voice and might be threatened with the dustbin in the morning if he doesn't recover it. The efforts of the salt cellar and the pepper mill to help him regain it, involve them in a confrontation with the Old Tea Bag. Danger also comes from a voracious mouse and from the efforts of the Big Ones to destroy the vermin by poison. All is resolved by morning, with the unobservant Big Ones none the wiser.
