Nichols, in his _Literary Anecdotes_, associates this and other "Lilliputian Histories" with the brothers Griffiths and Giles Jones, and family tradition credits Giles with _Goody Two-Shoes_ as well as _Giles Gingerbread_ and _Tommy Trip_; but if, as Goldsmith would have it, Mr. Newbery was the real author of _Tommy Trip_, there is no reason why he should not have had a hand in the rest.
