Goody Two Shoes

a tale usually but improperly classed with fairy stories. It is a story of a little girl so poor as to have but one shoe. When given a pair, she is so delighted that her constant repetition of the words "two shoes, two shoes," wins for her the nickname of Goody Two Shoes. No supernatural element is introduced, although the little girl is so extraordinarily good, unselfish, and capable as to seem almost supernatural. She is rewarded for her virtue and kindness by the affection of friends and neighbors, by a happy marriage, and by being reunited with her only relative, a brother from whom she was separated while a young child. The story was published first by Newbury, an English publisher, in 1765. The author is not known with certainty, but the story is supposed to have been written by Oliver Goldsmith.