“Come Here, Boby,” I Said, and Stooped to Pet Him . . . and No Dog Was There! (1921)

Camille Flammarion, “Do Dogs Have Souls? Some Experiences with the Ghosts of Dogs,” Hearst’s International 40 (October 1919): 40.

They Always Went through the Same Gestures, with the Same Object. The Tin Dog Would Say "Woof," Then a Ball of Twine Would Fly Out of His Mouth and Wrap Itself around My Hands and Legs and Throat—(1919)

Joseph Hergesheimer, “The Meeker Ritual: II,” The Century Magazine 98 (October 1919): 739.

Mrs. Lookina Left Him, Taking the Candle, and Locked the Door (1892)

Felix Volkhovsky, "A China Cup and Other Stories for Children,"  Illustrated by Malischiff (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892), 91.

He Had Been Beaten by Mr. Meeker's Cane (1919)

Joseph Hergesheimer, “The Meeker Ritual,” Illustrations by John Newton Howitt, The Century 98 (June 1919): 157.