"The zoo that never was.  The Gazzit.  He has a cap upon his head just where his hairs don't grow; but if he has behind his nose a mouth, I do not know!"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.

From Life magazine, 1884.

From The Stars in Our Heaven, Myths and Fables by Peter Lum. 

From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.

From St. Nicholas, 1891.

From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1896.  

From Chatterbox, 1893.  

From Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures In Art with Special Reference To Their Use in British Heraldry by John Vinycomb, 1906.

From Blunder's Mystery Companions by Florence M. Pettee and illustrated by Alexander Key, 1929.

From Wee Wisdom, 1921.

From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.

From Bowles's Polite Recreation in Drawing, 1779.

From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.

From We Can Read Mr. Whiskers by Gerard, McInnes & McLean, 1962.

From Junior Home Problems by Kinyon & Hopkins and illustrated by Clara Fitts, 1928.

"Don't divide me," begged the Apple.  "It is mercy I implore."  But the Knife could give no quarter till he'd halved the Apple's core!  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.

"Say John, want to see something funny?"  From an ad for College Humor, in Movie Classic, 1934.

"Waiter, take this gentleman's soup away.  I can't hear the band!"  From Punch, 1910.

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1892.

From Chatterbox, 1897.