From Little Journeys Abroad by Stothers & Rupert and illustrated by Edith McLaren, 1938.

From Wee Wisdom, 1921.

"Shanghai.  It is nobody's home -- people just live there."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.

From Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 1900.

From School Boys of Long Ago by Beatrice Hurley & Ina Sartorius and illustrated by Henry Rood, 1935.

From The Heroes of the Puppet Stage by Madge Anderson, 1923.

From Vajra Bodhi Sea, 1977.

From Chatterbox, 1916.

From A Round-the-World Jingle by Charlotte C. Davenport, 1918.

From Punch, 1928.

From The Fairy Foxes, a Chinese Legend, told in English by Mrs. Archibald Little, 1895.

From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.

Before Why Paint Cats? there was Why Paint Turtles?  From Reaching Our Goals by Horn, Goodykoontz & Snedaker and illustrated by Cleveland Woodward, 1940.

Water buffalo.  From Trailing Our Animal Friends by Nida & Nida, 1928.

From A Round-the-World Jingle by Charlotte C. Davenport, 1918.

From The Blue Rose Fairy Book by Maurice Baring, 1911.

From The Ford of Heaven by Brian Power.

From The Century, 1893.

It's really the only way to go -- "Unheeding, he plunged on."  From Plum Blossoms and Blue Incense by James Bennett and Soong Kwen-Ling, 1926.