From The Cheerful Day by Nan Fairbrother, 1960.

From Wee Wisdom, 1926.

From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.

From Wee Wisdom, 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.

From Wee Wisdom, 1930.

"Observe the Plymp!  He is an imp: he hides 'neath hill or bump, stays there as quietly as a shrimp—then shouts and makes you jump!"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.

From Wee Wisdom, 1926.

From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.

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

From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 1920.

From Wee Wisdom, 1928.