The cat and the ogre.  From Europa's Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John Batten, 1916.  

From Cine-Mundial, 1932.

We almost didn't notice the cat staring through the decades, at the bottom left of the photo.  It sees you through the mists of the time, and (in the enlargement) you can tell by the look on its face that it understands something about you that no one else does.  From Worcester Polytechnic's 1971 yearbook.

Every October, a cat scratches out the eyes of the man in the moon.  From the Carthage yearbook of 1916.

From Die Muskete, 1939.  This should also be of interest: How to Be Your Own Cat.

Reblog if you, too, are an Edgar Allan Poe.  From Eastern Carolina's 1927 yearbook.

Reblog if you read while surrounded by animals.  An illustration by Paul Simmel for Lustige Blätter, 1919.

Thanks to Elizabeth Henry, the Bibliophibian, for featuring our How to Be Your Own Cat over at Instagram.

From The Century (1905).

From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.

"To the castle of the sleepy king."  From The Sleepy King by Aubrey Hopwood and Seymour Hicks, 1900.

What do these cats have to do with a yearbook?  Well, a tabby named Tom Terrific earned his medical degree in 1972.  From Medical College of Virginia's 1972 yearbook.

Cats transport a sick lamb.  From Dame Wiggins of Lee and Her Seven Wonderful Cats, Written Principally By a Lady of Ninety, 1923.

The what and whyfor of these highly occult abominations are explained very thoroughly in How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook. 

From Susquehanna's 1901 yearbook.

"Adopt a more 'give and take' attitude."  From Spellbound, 1977.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)