From The Cat in the Mysteries of Religion and Magic by M. Oldfield Howey, 1930.

From Friends and Helpers by Sarah J. Eddy, 1900.

From Our Fourfooted Friends and How We Treat Them, 1921.

Q: "Can the man forced into the ditch truthfully say that the black cat brought him bad luck?"

A: No, but the black cat served as harbinger of the man's accursed neighbor who shouldn't be allowed to drive.

From Thinking and Writing Clearly by Stratton, Blossom & Lanphear and illustrated by Corinne Malvern, 1943.

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

From Cats and Kttens by Edgar Werner, 1906.

"Gracie."  From the [Ontario] Tangent, 1937.

From Using Modern Science by Smith & Jones, 1951.

From Southwestern Union College's 1988 yearbook.

From Mother Goose's Melodies, 1869.

From Travels of Puss-in-Boots, Jr. by David Cory, 1918.

From Our Fourfooted Friends and How We Treat Them, 1902.

From Youth's Companion, 1927.

From The Story of a Cat by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1878.

From Slices of Mother Goose by Alice Parkman, 1877.

"He will be as still as he can be.  The night is not still now."  From Practice for Up and Away by McKee, Harrison, McCowen & Lehr, 1957.

From Appleton's First Reader, 1878.

"Life is a joke that's just begun."  From Our Fourfooted Friends and How We Treat Them, 1920.

From Our Dumb Animals, 1946.