From The Wishing Tree by Ruth Chew.

From Secret Nostrums and Systems by Charles Wilmot Oleson, 1889.  That sigil, of course, reminds us of this remarkable collection of squiggles from various editions of Tristram Shandy.

From the rare Wonder Tales of Dogs and Cats by Frances Carpenter and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats.

From Scissor Pictures by Ethel Barr, 1906.

From A Portion For Foxes by Jane McIlvaine McClary.

From Every Soul is a Circus by Vachel Lindsay, 1929.

From Twinkle Toes and His Magic Mittens by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by F. R. Morgan, 1919.

From You Better Come Home With Me by John Lawson and illustrated by Arnold Spilka.

Reblog if you wear a tiny grove on your head and/or have been exiled by your extraordinarily long hair.  From Exiles of the Stars by Andre Norton.

It seems rare to see a goose snow skiing, but we've seen migrating geese land on a frozen lake, and it's much the same thing.  From Goofy Mrs. Goose, written and illustrated by Miriam Clark Potter.

From Women in the Wall by Julia O'Faolain.

This surprised us, as we've had no more than 78 good times out of doors.  From Eighty Good Times Out of Doors by Lilian Heath, 1902.

Great title: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett, 1910.  But does spelling out the number 24 make for a longer day?  The version with the numeral has 75 pages, and the version with "twenty-four" has 103 pages.

From A Lot of Ballyhoo by Elmer Zilch, via Evan Finch.

From Jimmy Takes Vanishing Lessons by Walter R. Brooks and illustrated by Don Bolognese.

From The Mysteries and Secrets of Magic by C. J. S. Thompson, 1928.

From Peter Had Courage by Claude Moore Fuess.

From The Romance of Poisons by Robert Cromie and T. S. Wilson, 1903.