In Walks the Little Dog, Says “Pussy! Are You There?” (1922)

Beatrix Potter, Cecil Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes (New York: Frederick Warne and Company, 1922), 39.

You Are in Disgrace You Know, and in the Corner You Must Go (1886)

Lizzie Lawson and Robert Ellice Mack, Christmas Roses (London: Griffith, Farran and Company, 1886), 18.

The Cat Is, Is (1896)

The New Vertical Script Primer (New York: Potter and Putnam, 1896), 4.

Cats like Fish as You like Candy,—Better Than You like Candy Fish (1875)

“The Bell Ringers,” St. Nicholas 2 (January 1875): 192.

That Which Looks like the Knee of a Cat Is Really the Wrist (1891)

George Ricks, Natural History Object Lessons: A Manual for Teachers (Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1891), 146.

An Interrupted Performance (1891)

Illustrated listing for The Christmas Volume of “Little Folks Magazine,” Engraving by Louis Wain, The Publisher’s Circular and Bookseller’s Record of British and Foreign Literature 55 (December 4, 1891): 95.

Cats and Crackers (1853)

Mr. Rutherford’s Children 1 (New York: George P. Putnam and Co., 1853), 143.

The Display of Such Propensities Was a Source of Sore Annoyance to the Husband, but Nature Will Take Her Course (1865)

G. Moir Bussey, “The Cat Metamorphosed into a Woman,” Engraving by Orrin Smith after illustrations by J.J. Grandville, Fables; Original and Selected with an Introductory Dissertation on the History of Fable, Comprising Biographical Notices of Eminent Fabulists (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1865), 17.

“Now the Enemy Is Fairly Repulsed. Let Us Move out of Our Intrenchments, and Give the Dead Sepulture,” He Said Quite Manfully (1875)

“Care Kills the Cat,” Rape of the Gamp, Chapter XIX, Harper’s New Monthly Mazazine (March 1875): 506.

The Leopard Fearing the Combined Strength of His Adversaries Left Their Neighbourhood and Retreated across Country (1881)

“Animal Defenses” The Boys’ and Girls’ Book of Science (London: Strahan and Company Limited, ), 368.

Fortunate That the Monkey Did Not Try His Experiments with the Real Baby (1885)

John R. Coryell, “Monkey Mischief,” Harper’s Magazine for Young People 6 (May 1885): 449.

We Now Come to a More Difficult Subject, That of Cats and Other Domestic Pets (1881)

“Cats, Dogs, and Other Household Pets,” The Boys’ and Girls’ Book of Science (London: Strahan and Company Limited), 335.

Hackney Churchyard Is an Aristocratic Feline Rendez-Vous (1904)

Sidney Kindall, “On the Trail of a Serpent,” Illustrated by O. Herford,  Pearson’s Magazine 17 (June 1904): 640.