Here Are Two Marbles for Eyes (1906)

Clarence Franklin Carroll and Sarah Catherine Brooks, The Brooks Primer (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1906), 63.

At the Rate You Are Going On, You May Get There in a Year and a Half from Now (1868)

Helen C. Week, “Snow Drift,” The Ainslee Stories, Illustration by W.L. Champney and S.L. Smith (New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1868), 190.

A Succession of Camps Should Be Made All the Way to the Pole with a Lamp in the Kitchen Window Constantly Burning as a Beacon for Belated Explorers (1882)

William Livingston Alden, “A Road to the Pole,” The Comic Liar: A Book Not Commonly Found in Sunday Schools (New York: G.W. Carleton & Company, 1882), 61.

I, Said the Owl (c.1819)

Cock Robin. A Pretty Painted Toy for Either Girl or Boy; Suited to Children of All Ages. (London: John Harris, c.1819).