From Child-Library Readers Book Two by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1925.

From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (1894).

From Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1914.

It's rare to gain an insight into fairy spinners' magic spells. "Pluck the moon-rays into shreds.  Shreds of moonlight, flax of bubble.  Twist them into flimsy threads.  Weave the muslin double-double."  From St. Nicholas, 1914.

From Manchester College's 1931 yearbook.

From The Rainbow Cat by Rose Fyleman and illustrated by Thema Cudlipp Grosvenor, 1923.

From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (1894).

Just as you may have guessed, fairy tea contains heartsease, Johnny-jump-up, May-bloom, joy-weed, and waterfall water.  Note that both "heartsease" and "Johnny-jump-up" are names for wild pansies.  How to tell one from the other?  We suggest that one is mostly purple and one is mostly yellow.  From St. Nicholas, 1914.

Icicle fairies.  From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 1917.

From Puck's Broom by E. Gordon Browne and illustrated by Kathleen I. Nixon, 1923.

Impelled with steps unceasing to pursue
Some fleeting Muse, that mocks me with the view;
That like the Circle, bounding earth and skies
Allures from afar, yet, as I follow, flies.

[altered slightly from Henry Goldsmith]

From Mitchell's 1921 yearbook.

From Purple Parrot, 1944.

From The Little Story House by Miriam Mason, 1935.

Revealed -- why bubbles burst.  From Loraine and the Little People of Spring by Elizabeth Gordon and illustrated by Ella Dolbear Lee, 1918.

From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.

From The Little Story House by Miriam Mason, 1935.

From Child-Library Readers Book Two by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1925.

We, too, majored in English, and that's exactly why so many fairies and imps populate all we do.  From Western Illinois State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.

From Scribner's 1880.

From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 1917.