From Storyland by Hazel Gertrude Kinscella and illustrated by Ruth Mary Hallock, 1930.

"A wolverine, finding a backwoodsman's house empty, will clear it of everything movable down to the gridiron."  From The Romance of the Animal World by Edmund Selous, 1908.

From Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, 1899.

From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1910.

From Tomorrow Revealed by John Atkins, 1955.  

"The floating sensation surprised me, for I knew quite well I was dead."  From Amazing Stories, vol. 23, no. 07.

From Life, 1912.

From Wee Wisdom, 1934.

From Grimm's Fairy Tales Retold In One-Syllable Words, 1899.

The endpapers from The Tale of Old Mr. Crow by Arthur Scott Bailey, 1917.

"Which is most like you and me?"  From Windows On Our World, Things We Do, 1976.

The endpapers from The Crystal Locket by Nellie M. Rowe and illustrated by Elizabeth Enright, 1935.

From Bowles's Polite Recreation in Drawing, 1779.

From The Little Blue Man by Giuseppe Fanciulli and translated by May M. Sweet, 1926.

From High Society: Hints on How to Attain, Relish, and Survive It by Fish, 1915.

From The Toy-Box by John McInnes.

From Mother Nature's Children by Allen Walton Gould, 1900.

From Chatterbox, 1882.

From The Strand, 1894.