A was an Archer, who shot at a frog, B was a blind man, and led by a dog ... etc. This first appeared in _A Little Book for Little Children_ by T. W., sold at the Ring in Little Britain. It contains a portrait of Queen Anne, and probably goes back to the early part of the eighteenth century. _The Topbook of all_, already mentioned, which is of about 1760, contains the oldest version that I have come across of the words used in playing _The Gaping, Wide-mouthed, Waddling Frog_, each verse of which is illustrated by a rough cut. Again, _The Tragic Death of A, Apple Pie_, which, as mentioned above, was cited as far back as 1671, forms the contents of a toy-book issued by J. Evans about the year 1791 at the price of a farthing. _The Death and Burial of Cock Robin_ fills a toy-book which was published by J. Marshall, London, and again by Rusher at Banbury; both editions are undated. Again _The Courtship, Marriage, and Picnic Dinner of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren_ form the contents of a toy-book dated 1810 and published by Harris, and _The Life and Death of Jenny Wren_ appeared in a toy-book dated 1813, issued by J. Evans. Another famous toy-book contained _The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog_. This story was first issued in toy-book form by J. Harris, "successor to E. Newbery at the corner of St. Paul's Churchyard," probably at the beginning of 1806, at the cost of eighteen pence. A copy of the second edition, which mentions the date 1 May, 1806, is at the British Museum. It contains the words "to T. B. Esquire, M.P. county of XX, at whose suggestion and at whose house these notable sketches were first designed, this volume is with all suitable deference dedicated by his humble servant S. C. M." The coffin which is represented in one of the cuts in the book bears the initials S. C. M., and the date 1804. This inscribing of the author's initials on a coffin is quite in keeping with the tone of toy-book literature. In October, 1805, J. Harris had published _Whimsical Incidents, or the Power of Music, a poetic tale by a near relation of Old Mother Hubbard_, which has little to recommend it, and contains nothing on the dog. On its first page stands a verse which figures independently as a nursery rhyme in some later collections:-- The cat was asleep by the side of the fire, Her mistress snor'd loud as a pig, When Jack took the fiddle by Jenny's desire, And struck up a bit of a jig. (1810, p. 33.) J. Harris also published in March, 1806, _Pug's Visit, or the Disasters of Mr. Punch_, a sequel to the _Comic Adventures of Mother Hubbard and her Dog_. This has a dedication framed in the same style, "To P. A. Esquire ... by his humble servant W. F."