Jack and Jill (nursery rhyme) and brown paper were a home cure used as a method to draw out bruises on the body. Jack is the most common name used in English-language nursery rhymes and represented an archetypal Everyman hero by the 18th century, while Jill or Gill had come to mean a young girl or a sweetheart by the end of the Middle Ages. However, the woodcut that accompanied the first recorded version of the rhyme showed two boys (not a boy and a girl) and used the spelling Gill not Jill. The true origin of the rhyme is unknown, but there are several
Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes "But you don't know what a scramble I live in; and the old drawings are some of them better than any I could do now." Fruing grabbed at Potter's proposal. "Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes" was released in October 1917 with a revised edition of "Peter Rabbit's Painting Book" and the new "Tom Kitten's Painting Book". "Appley Dapply" sold well. Potter was satisfied and wrote Warne in late October, "I am much pleased with A. D., it makes a pretty book." It was reprinted in November 1917, and, by the end of the year, 20,000 copies had been sold. The dummy