From Chatterbox, 1879.

From The Cat Who Thought Too Much by Robin D. Gill.

Cats are ancestors of the violin.  [We once met a woman who said she had been a violin in a former life.  Perhaps she wasn't so crazy.]  The techniques described in How to Be Your Own Cat are a stepping-stone toward becoming your own violin.

From Elmhurst's 1922 yearbook.

From The Magic Shop by Maurice Dolbier and illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg.

From The Lucky Cat by Frances and Richard Lockridge and illustrated by Zhenya Gay.

From Cine-Mundial, 1922.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.

From The Cat, Being a Record of the Endearments and Invectives Lavished By Many Writers Upon an Animal Much Loved and Much Abhorred by Agnes Repplier, 1912.

From Chatterbox, 1876.

From The Cat On My Shoulder, edited by Lisa Rogak.

A better scan of this one.  From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.  This should also be of interest: How to Be Your Own Cat.

"What a singularly handsome cat."  From The Flight of Puss Pandora, written and illustrated by Caroline Fuller, 1906.

From The Life, History, and Magic of the Cat by Fernand Méry.

From the 1921 Ole Miss yearbook.

From the rare Wonder Tales of Dogs and Cats by Frances Carpenter and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats.

From The Cruise of the Happy-Go-Gay by Ursula Moray Willams and illustrated by Gunvor Edwards, 1967.

It explains those sudden jumps: "Cats pounce on demons."  From The Current Sauce, 1974.

From Carbonel, The King of the Cats by Barbara Sleigh and illustrated by V. H. Drummond.

From Puss in Boots, illustrated by Eric Winter.

From Twinkle Toes and His Magic Mittens by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by F. R. Morgan, 1919.

"He cherished it like a child."  From Harper's (1903).