"The Sun discovered a great bird."  From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 1917.

From Chatterbox, 1898.

From The Toy-Box by John McInnes.

From Chatterbox, 1876.

From Fables and Tales by W. F. Rocheleau, 1897.

From Chatterbox, 1905.

From Chatterbox, 1898.

From North Central's 1910 yearbook.

We love this sort of anthology that seems hell-bent to convince readers that the locality in question is plagued by vampires, werewolves, ghost ships, sea serpents, aliens, flying carpets, and other haunting anomalies.  Every region should have one!  From Strange Maine, illustrated by Peter Farrow.

From The Unruly Robin, written and illustrated by Dorathea Dankovszky.

The age that birds marry is a good enough topic, though we were more interested in knowing how birds handle "empty nest syndome."  From Rod and Gun in Canada, 1914.

From Scribner's 1875.

From the out-of-print The Return of the Dragon by Jane Zaring and illustrated by Polly Broman.

From Chatterbox, 1874.  

From Hanover College's 1937 yearbook.

From The Unruly Robin, written and illustrated by Dorathea Dankovszky.

From Chatterbox, 1907.

From Cornell College's 1920 yearbook.

From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1913.

"The harpy in wait."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.