From Appletons' School Readers Book 2, 1878.

From Tales and Travels, A Second Reader by Cora Martin, 1930.

From The Laidlaw Basic Readers, Book One: Reading Activities, Maintenance and Functional Exercises, 1940.

From My Do and Learn Book To Accompany The Little White House by Ousley & Russell, 1948.  Related: The Minimalist Coloring Book.

From 73 Magazine, 1967.

That feeling of resting for the first time in a hundred years.  From Mother Goose Secrets as told by the story gnome to Barbara Webb Bourjaily and illustrated by Joe King, 1925.

From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Edmund Dulac, 1919.

From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 123.

From A Horse Came Running by Meindert DeJong.

From Youth's Companion, 1929.  

From Prophetical, Educational and Playing Cards by Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, 1912.

Here's today's elf stretched by mice.  From The Owl King and Other Fairy Stories by Herbert Escott Inman and illustrated by E. A. Mason, 1898.

From Where Our Ways of Living Come From by Howard Wilson, 1940.

From Egypt of the Past by Erasmus Wilson, 1882.

From St. Nicholas, 1891.

From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.

From Reptiles and Amphibians by Feberal Writers' Project, 1939.

It's always that way -- you try to point out a shooting star, but the other person doesn't see it in time.  From The Signet of King Solomon by Augustus Arnold, 1868.

An illustration by Raymond Perry for The Circle, 1910.