From The Canadian Readers Book III, 1933.  

From The Sorceress of Rome by Nathan Gallizier and illustrated by The Kinneys, 1907.

Same!  "She stole on tiptoe to the window, as cautiously as if she conceived some bloody-minded villain to be watching behind the elm-tree, with intent to take her life."  From The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Helen Mason Grose, 1924.

From our review of Magnificent Milo, written and illustrated by Joan Balfour Payne (1958).

Here's today's goat staring into the void.  From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.

"Unfulfilled."  From Scribner's, 1878.

From The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Helen Mason Grose, 1924.

From Cassell's Family Magazine, 1877.

From Cassell's Family Magazine, 1877.

From Chatterbox, 1917.

From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.

From Chatterbox, 1872.

From Chatterbox, 1917.

From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1912 yearbook.

From Abeniki Caldwell by Carolyn Wells, 1902.

Here's today's bunny staring into the void.  From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.

From The Rainbow String by Algernon Tassin and illustrated by Anna Richards Brewster, 1921.

We, too, omce started up the chimney ... and come to think of it, we've not yet come down.  From Chatterbox, 1909.

From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.

Before television, fireplaces offered the best entertainment.  From Moving Picture World, 1923.