Just getting on and holding the things.  From The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 1910.

From Around an Iroquois Story Fire by Mabel Powers (Yehsennohwehs) and illustrated by R. Emmett Owen, 1923.

Reblog if a tortoise has pulled you away from tiny men.  From The Old Line, 1940.

From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1949.

The mind is an enchanted glass full of superstition.  From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1957.

From The Martlet, 1966.

From La Lámpara Maravillosa, Ejercicios Espiritualis by Ramón Valle-Inclán, 1916.

From The Fables of Aesop, 1925.

From Unknown, 1942.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.

A flying turtle from Hollow Tree Nights and Days by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 1916.

From the University of Chicago's 1908 yearbook.

From Cine-Mundial, 1922.

The old fable failed to mention that, ultimately, the tortoise and the hare were racing toward the grave.  From Le Charivari, 1887.

From La Lámpara Maravillosa, Ejercicios Espiritualis by Ramón Valle-Inclán, 1916.

Rare: the sketch artist is even slower than the turtles.  From Le Charivari, 1889.

From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.

Reblog if you ride a budget turtle or sometimes go out in your shell.  From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1905.