From Wee Wisdom, 1933.

From Told By the Sandman: Stories For Bedtime by Abbie Phillips Walker, 1916.

You've heard the great question from The Sound of Music, "How do you solve a problem like Maria?  How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?"  It's actually not that difficult.  We previously saw one way to do it, here.  But the simplest answer is revealed in The Children's Newspaper, 1933: simply use the water droplets' stickiness.

"Do dewdrops drop?  Yes or no."  From Improvement Era, 1945.

From Hyde Park's 1895 yearbook.

"Some choose the roofs to clean and scrub."  From The Wonderful Fairies of the Sun by Ernest Vincent Wright and illustrated by Cora M. Norman, 1896.

"Jest like as the dewdrops sparkle / In the sun of the mornin' skies."  From Grandma's Attic Treasures by Mary Dow Brine, 1882.