Even though the presumed reading of this is that no woman can keep a secret, we see it as depicting a superlative secret keeper so stealthy as to be neither seen nor heard.  From Judge's Library, 1895.

From Kladderadatsch, 1927.

From La Broma: Órgana Política Liberala, 1881.  Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla.

"It was no longer a flask."  From Fairy Tales in Other Lands by Julie Goddard, 1892.

"'Tis my business to get you humans into a mess in these here bogs."  From The Flint Heart by Eden Phillpotts, 1910.

"Device for smuggling intoxicants."  From Popular Mechanics, 1909.

The over-attentive waiter.  From Jugend, 1910.

From Die Bühne, 1929.

The enormous giant Col. Chang Yu Sing and his diminutive companion, General Tiny Mite.

That horses see ghosts is apparent in their expressions.  From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.

God's headphones.  From Kladderadatsch, 1932.

Here's a note written on the endpaper of Violet: A Fairy Story (1855), calling it "the most exquisite book of all" and explaining how mutual appreciation of books of fairy tales united 488 young people into the "Ark-adian Brothers and Sisters of California."

Rune stone at farmstead in Törnby, Skå, Uppland, Sweden, 1934.  Courtesy of Swedish National Heritage.

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