“Be a Man, Mr. Flip! Come in Here! Don’t Make a Scene!” It Was Kitty Who Spoke, and Who Drew Him into the Yard (1883)

“Flip, of Figham’s,” Frank Leslie’s Pleasant Hours 34 (February–July): 336.

Far from Being Alarmed at His Sight, Beauty Was Delighted (1858)

J.R. Plancé “Beauty and the Beast,” Four and Twenty Fairy Tales: Selected from those of Perrault, and Other Popular Writers (London: G. Routledge & Co., 1858), 272.

He Told Her of the Errand on Which He Had Come (1905)

“Rabbi Phil,” Illustration by Sydney Cowell, The Quiver (Annual Volume 1905): 196.

Good-Bye Mistress Friendly-Soul (1914)

Mary Johnston, The Witch (Toronto: William Briggs, 1914), frontispiece.

Curly-Locks Hardly Knew What to Make of It (1905)

Millicent Burbridge, “Curly Locks: A Story for Young and Old,” The Quiver (Annual Volume 1905): 1301.

Let’s Waste No Time on the Outskirts of Friendship (1916)

Mary Heaton Vorse, “The Judgement of the Thortons,” Illustration by W.S. Corrow, The Century 92 (May 1916): 87.

Coasting (1898)

A.B Frost, “Some Bicycle Pictures” Scribner’s Magazine 23 (May 1898): 607

“Tom,” Whispered Mrs Nichols, “Here Is an Occasion for the Display of Moral Courage to Serve as a Pendant to Your Physical Bravery of the Morning. Cheer Up.”

Robert Grant, “In Fly-Time,” Illustration by C.D. Gibson, The Bachelor’s Christmas and Other Stories,” (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910), 142.

The Proposal (1891)

Frank R. Stockton, “The Squirrel Inn—V,” The Century 42 (September 1891): 702.

I Do Not Want to Go, Mamma (1880)

“This Is the Way, Walk Ye in It,” Arthur’s Illustrated Home Magazine 48 (December 1880): 690.

Burly Felt a Pleasant Shock as Her Eyes Met His (1913)

Julian Street, “At Liberty,” Illustration by James Montgomery Flagg, Everybody’s Magazine 28 (January 1913): 51.

Figurines of a Male and a Female Personage from the Walpi Flute Altar (1894)

Jesse Walter Fewkes, “The Walpi Flute Observations,” The Journal of American Folklore 7 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1894), 287, plate 1.

Sailing on Skates (1883)

“Sailing on Skates,” Frank Leslie’s Pleasant Hours 34 (February –July 1883): 128.

A Small Black, Energetic Figure Came out from among the Firs and Ran Forward Where the Longest Shadow Pointed (1919)

Katherine Newlin Burt, “The Branding Iron,” Illustrated by Charles Sarka, Everybody’s Magazine 40 (March 1919): 50.

Grasping a Branch Which Overhung the Edge, the Brave Young Champion Stooped Down and Kissed the Hideous Monster (1884)

Alfred C. Fryer, Book of English Fairy Tales from the North-Country (London: W. Swan. Sonnenschein & Company, 1884), 91.

Dancing, Which Is Now Profane, Was Once a Sacred Pastime (1834)

My Daughter's Book: Containing a Selection of Approved Readings in Literature, Science, and Art, Adapted to the Formation of the Character of Woman (London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1834), 241

La Russe, or the Allies, at Tivoli (1898)

Gaston Vullier, Illustrated by Joseph Grego, History of Dancing from the Earliest Ages to Our Own Times (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898), 315.

The Extended Arms and the Lady's Hand Grasping the Gentleman's Arm Are Not in Good Taste (1885)

Allen Dodsworth, Dancing and Its Relations to Education and Social Life: With a New Method of Instruction (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1885), 275.

Sometimes the Jig is Danced Before the March (1864)

Thomas Hillgrove, A Complete Practical Guide to the Art of Dancing: Containing Descriptions of All Fashionable and Approved Dances, Full Directions for Calling the Figures, the Amount of Music Required; Hints on Etiquette, the Toilet, etc. (New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, 1864), 89.

Familiarity Will Accustom the Limbs and Body to the Mechanism of the Steps (1914)

Troy and Margret West Kinney,  demonstrated by John Murray Anderson, Social Dancing To-Day (New York: Frederick Stokes Company, 1914), 6.