From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht and illustrated by Herman Rosse, 1922.

From The Unicorn Window by Lynette Muir and illustrated by Pauline Baynes.

From Maoriland Fairy Tales by Edith Howes, 1913.

From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1950 yearbook.

From The Built Upon House by Janet Field Heath and illustrated by Lloyd J. Dotterer, 1929.

From Goshen's 1943 yearbook.

From Sporting Yarns by Andrew Haggard and illustrated by Griff, 1903.

From The Pixie in the House by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Clara Powers Wilson, 1915.

From Goofy Mrs. Goose, written and illustrated by Miriam Clark Potter.

"We stared at each other while he blew a blast on his panpipes."  From Chatterbox, 1909.

From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.

From the out-of-print The Return of the Dragon by Jane Zaring and illustrated by Polly Broman.

From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.

From The Current Sauce, 1953.

From Soviet Sputniks, 1958. 

A prediction about Twitter?  "You screech because you're afraid."  From Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich and illustrated by William Steig.

Staring at the flame.  From Plum Blossoms and Blue Incense by James Bennett and Soong Kwen-Ling, 1926.

"The laughed so hard ... POP went the buttons!"  From The Film Daily, 1942.

From Weird Tales, 1942.