From My Do and Learn Book to Accompany Friends Far and Near, 1958.

"And up above the lonely unseen stars hold silver revelry."  From The Tangent, 1929.

The endpapers from Astronomy and the Bible by Lucas Albert Reed, 1919.

From The Hiawatha Primer by Florence Holbrook, 1898.

It's always that way -- you try to point out a shooting star, but the other person doesn't see it in time.  From The Signet of King Solomon by Augustus Arnold, 1868.

Via BUFORA Newsfile, 1996.

From Building My House of Health by Jessie Lummis, 1927.

From The Heavens by Amedée Guillemin, 1867.

From Almanac for New Yorkers 1938.

From Astronomy and the Bible by Lucas Albert Reed, 1919.

From The Outline of Everything by Hector B. Toogood, 1923.

From Using Our Language, Grade VIII by T. I. Davis, 1961.

From Butler University's 1926 yearbook.

From Mr. Crow and the Whitewash by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 1915.

From Queen Titania's Radio Fairies by The Sandman, 1924.

From Twilight Fairy Tales by May Showler Groves and illustrated by Mary Crete Crouch, 1914.

"They would knock the stars about our tumbling chimneys."  From Frightful Plays by Charles Brooks, 1922.

From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1895.

From Das XIX, Jahrhundert in Wort und Bild, 1900.

Great news!  "You still have time."  From an ad in 1956.