"Six ants meet a caterpillar."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.

Owl versus crow.  From Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1898.

From The Haliburton First Reader by Margaret Haliburton, 1912.

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

From Life: Activities and Explorations, Teacher's Edition by Faviano & Liberson, 1975.

"Between two fires."  From St. Nicholas, 1886.

Dog versus wolf.  From Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1898.

Crow versus owl: which do you wager to win?  From Mother Nature's Children by Allen Walton Gould, 1900.

From Histoires et Contes Amusants by Joseph Edgar Poirier, 1950.

"One mouse beats ten elephants."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1921.

From People and Places by Horn, McBroom & Bishop and illustrated by Sperry, Stein & Paus, 1940.

From Appletons' School Readers Book 3, by Harris, Rickoff & Bailey, 1886.

Wolves versus groundhog.  Which do you wager for the win?  From Little Ugly Face by Florence Claudine Coolidge and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 1933.

Eagle versus dog and cow.  Which do you wager for the win?  From Chatterbox, 1902.

From Alone in the Wilderness by Joseph Knowles, 1913.

From The Instructor, 1931.

Condor versus puma: which do you wager for the win?  From All About Animals: Facts, Stories and Anecdotes, 1900.

"Snail kills a mouse.  A tragedy of the countryside."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1923.

From Amrita, 1971.

Mongoose versus cobra: which do you wager for the win?  From All About Animals: Facts, Stories and Anecdotes, 1900.