I dreamed about a mouse.

An illustration from an 1892 issue of The Idler magazine.  The caption reads: "Mr. Presterton seemed to be swelling."

An illustration from a 1907 issue of The Windsor magazine.

An illustration from a 1906 issue of The Idler magazine.  The caption reads: "'The transmigration of souls,' he said, 'is now no longer a puzzle to me.'"

An illustration from an 1896 issue of The Idler magazine.  The caption reads: "Waiter, this Gorgonzola has eaten all my bread!"

Here's a precursor to a Hitler imitation:  an illustration from an 1892 issue of The Idler magazine.

An illustration from an 1895 issue of The Idler magazine.

Surely the word like in this caption alerts a figure of speech, but we do respect an adventurer who recoils from exaggeration.  The illustration is from The Wide World Magazine, 1899.

An illustration from a 1906 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration from a 1901 issue of The Idler magazine.

Cupid as the Devil's ventriloquist dummy, from Life, 1920.

An illustration from a 1920 issue of Life magazine.  The caption reads: "The house haunters' union decides to strike for a four-hour night."

Twenty years before George Vernon Hudson proposed daylight saving time, Father Time advanced the clock in Father Time's Story Book by Kathleen Knox (1873).

An illustration from an 1893 issue of The Idler magazine.

"The Down Express":  an illustration from a 1901 issue of The Idler magazine.

An illustration from a 1906 issue of Wide World magazine.  The caption reads: "I walked right off the train."

A surrealist illustration from a 1906 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "The great sphere I recognized after closer scrutiny as an orange."

"How an Eagle Carried Off the Baby": an illustration from a 1900 issue of Wide World magazine.