A rebus, in which pictures represent words, was a favorite amusement in the eighteenth century. [America toe] her [miss]taken [moth]er (America to her mistaken mother) is the second of a pair of political satires in which Britain asks America to reconsider her alliance with France by accepting an offer of peace from the Carlisle Commissioners sent by Britain. America, depicted as an Indian woman holding an American flag, rejects Britain's attempts.