From Wee Wisdom, 1934.

From The Toy-Box by John McInnes.

From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921.

From Think-and-Do Book to Accompany More Friends and Neighbours, 1940.

From Cuentecitos by Wilkins & Oller, 1935.

Answers: steel, shadow, spike, shake, coddle, garden.

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

From The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1923.

From Scribner's 1877.

"Fish that trusts a man."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.

From Phonic Primer, 1918.

The constellation Andromeda and the Andromeda nebula, from a 15th century Sufi manuscript.

From Wee Wisdom, 1928.

From Youth's Companion, 1915.

"What do you like to pat?"  From Practice For Jack and Janet Primer by McKee, Harrison, McCowen & Lehr, 1957.

From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1959.

"A fish that knows.  And a hermit that would eat his mates."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.

From The Daily Mirror, 1904.

From Rhyme Time for Children by Emilie Poulsson and illustrated by W. M. Berger, 1929.

"If he be an honest angler, may the east wind never blow when he goes a fishing." —Isaak Walton.  From Youth's Companion, 1924.