From Slices of Mother Goose by Alice Parkman, 1877.

From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.

From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.

"Old King Cole was a wise old soul / Deep in his pocket he dug / To save more money week by week / And diddle the Squander Bug."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1945.

From Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties, written and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1858.

From Armour Institute of Technology's 1914 yearbook.

From Slices of Mother Goose by Alice Parkman, 1877.

From A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1918.

From The Cheerful Day by Nan Fairbrother, 1960.

From Wee Wisdom, 1926.

From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.

From Cats and Kttens by Edgar Werner, 1906.

From Wee Wisdom, 1918.

From Wee Wisdom, 1933.

From Wee Wisdom, 1925.

"'Here is a thing,' the spider said, 'which causes me surprise.  Why does a duck whose feet are webbed appear to catch no flies?'"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.

"If I want to know the time in the middle of the night, I've a sundial in the garden which I view by candlelight."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1940.

From Mr. Whiskers, edited by John McInnes, 1961.

From Slices of Mother Goose by Alice Parkman, 1877.