From Wonder World, A Collection of Fairy Tales, Old and New, 1875.

From Old Norse Fairy Tales Gathered From the Swedish Folk by George Stephens and H. Cavallius, 1882.

From Hunter College's Wistarion yearbook, 1913.   See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

A postcard by Arthur Thiele, World War I-era.   See How to Believe in Your Elf.

From Once a Week, 1860.

A postcard by Arthur Thiele, World War I-era.

From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.

Reblog if you, too, have had to hide yourself within the food you were gorging upon.  "A piece of Harry's large picture."  From The Riverside Magazine for Young People, 1870.  The text reads, "But while I was eating still with undiminished relish, I heard that somebody was at the door.  In the perplexity of the moment I did not know where to conceal myself, when, fortunately or unfortunately, I jumped into the large hole which I had cut into the pie, squatted down, and shut the lid over my head."

A postcard by Arthur Thiele, World War I-era.

From Imaginotions: Truthless Tales by Tudor Jenks, 1894.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.

From The Moorish Gold and The One-Eyed Servant by Jean Ingelow, 1867.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.

A postcard by Arthur Thiele, World War I-era.

"He was caught beneath the cover of the book."  From Imaginotions: Truthless Tales by Tudor Jenks, 1894.