From The Canadian Pupil's Own Vocabulary Speller Grade 2 by Gates et al., 1947.

From True Fairy Stories by Mary E. Bakewell, 1902.

From The First Primer by J. M. D. Meiklejohn, 1881.

"More fun than the zoo."  From My Spelling 3 by Yoakam & Daw, 1949.

From Chatterbox, 1894.

From Handbook of Nature-Study by Anna Botsford Comstock, 1911.

From Sugar and Spice and All That's Nice by Mary Wilder Foot Tileson, 1885.

"How long will this last?  I am very tired."  From The Progressive Road to Reading, Book Two, 1912.

From The Second Normal Music Course by Tufts & Holt, 1897.

From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 1925.

From Chatterbox, 1874.  

From Changes All Around Us by Craig & Baldwin, 1940.

From Another Singing Time by Coleman & Thorn and illustrated by Ruth Carroll, 1937.

From Red Herring, Dec. 1991.

From Sugar and Spice and All That's Nice by Mary Wilder Foot Tileson, 1885.

From The Little Blue Man by Giuseppe Fanciulli and translated by May M. Sweet, 1926.

"There once was a wandering adder / who used a tall tree as a ladder. / 'One and one in a nest / come to two, I suggest,' / he said, 'which is proof I'm an adder.'"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1943.

From Wee Wisdom, 1934.

From The Pupils' Own Vocabulary Speller 2 by Gates, Rinsland, Sartorius, & Peardon, 1947.