From Letters from the Raven, Being the Correspondence of Lafcadio Hearn with Henry Watkin, 1907.

From Nonsense for Old and Young by Eugene Field, 1901.

You've heard of a harvest moon, a strawberry moon, a wolf moon … but here's a three-pipes moon from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome, 1889.

From Belle and the Dragon by Arthur Edward Waite, 1894.

"A man-trap and the skeleton of a man," from Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

"Reminiscences," from The History of Troop “A,” New York Cavalry U.S.V., from May 2 to November 28, 1898 in the Spanish-American War.

Mother Rigby presents her life-giving pipe to the scarecrow she has animated, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's fable "Feathertop," 1852.

From Up Ewig Ungedeelt by Detlev von Liliencron, 1898.

"Exceedingly comfortable," from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain.

An illustration from Bill Nye's History of the United States (1894).  The caption reads: "The more I regret that I was not born a foreigner."

A pipe smoking black cat and its witchy familiar fly on a broomstick under cover of chimney smoke. An illustration from an 1860 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration from an 1854 issue of Punch magazine.

"Snake-Talk": an illustration from an 1867 issue of Beadle's magazine.

My dream was cloudy.

Here's a double-whammy: a precursor to René Magritte's The Treachery of Images as well as his The Son of Man.  From Punch, 1859, thirty-nine years before Magritte's birth.  (Previously re: Magritte.)

An illustration from an 1875 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "Time smoking a picture: as Statues moulder into Worth."

Back in 18th century London, an ad in the Old Bailey periodical promised a spectacular show for "lovers of curiosities" by the "Moving Skeleton."  "According to the elaborate illustrated notice, the skeleton turned an hourglass, jabbed a dart and groaned '3 times most surprisingly' to alarm the viewers, concluding its performance by smoking a pipe.  An advisory notice was included: the show was too frightening to be seen by 'Persons with Child, Children, or others, whose Courage cannot be depended on.'" —Matthew Seccombe, Harvard Law De Jure newsletter.

The first diagram is my recreation of "The Pickle Theory of Value."  (This is a serious theory about the perceived value of start up businesses, and it is explained here.  Between you and me, I think all graphs should feature vegetables instead of boring lines.)

The second diagram is my spin-off of the pickle theory.  I call it, "Ceci n'est pas une cornichon."