Nichols, in his _Literary Anecdotes_,[57] 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. _Goody Two-Shoes_, in fact, has several turns of speech and grammatical slips which occur in John Newbery’s journal;[58] nor is it at all unlikely that Goldsmith, the friend of Giles Jones and Newbery, contributed such lively matter as the ghost and witch stories, or so quaint a fancy as the “Considering Cap”.