"He was grieving himself to death."  From Taytay's Tales by Elisabeth Willis De Huff and illustrated by Fred Kabotie and Otis Polelonema, 1922.

From Twilight Fairy Tales by May Showler Groves and illustrated by Mary Crete Crouch, 1914.

From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.

"The johnny darter."  From Handbook of Nature-Study by Anna Botsford Comstock, 1911.

From The Extraordinary Exploits and Experiences of Munchausen, M.D. by Julian Walter Brandeis and illustrated by William Gropper, 1924.

From Think-and-Do Book to Accompany More Friends and Neighbours, 1940.

From Celtic Myth & Legend, Poetry & Romance by Charles Squire, 1910.

From Modern Science in Our Environment by Dull & Mann, 1942.

From Emblemland by John Kendrick Bangs and Charles Raymond Macauley, 1902.

From The Eskimo Twins, written and illustrated by Lucy Fitch Perkins, 1914.

"Fishes ... I conjure you by your glittering scales."  From Vathek by William Beckford (1923).

Johnny Darter.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 1935.

"Not a hammer-fish."  From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.

From Animal Life, A First Book of Zoology by David Starr Jordan & Vernon L. Kellogg, 1902.

"Are goldfish globe trotters?  We don't know."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1934.

From The Pupil's Own Vocabulary Speller 2, illustrated by Mary Highsmith, 1947.

From The Alexandra Readers III by McIntyre, Dearness & Saul, 1908.

From Creatures of the Sea, Being the Life Stories of Some Sea Birds, Beasts, and Fishes by Frank Bullen, 1904.

Today's rabbit catching a fish in a net is from The Children's Newspaper, 1951.

From The Fall of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp, 1911.