A dancing chicken, date uncertain.

If you've seen the immortal Peter Sellers in Lolita, you'll know what what it looks like to put some "extra business" into a dance.  The caption reads, "Forgive me for this extra business."  From Pearson's, 1911.

From Some Adventures of Jack & Jill by Barbara Yechton and illustrated by Anna M. Upjohn, 1905.

Here's a precursor to the inflatable dancing tube figures used for advertising.  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1873.

From Adventures of Two Youths in the Open Polar Sea by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1885.

From Master Humphrey's Clock by Charles Dickens, 1843.

From The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature, 1911.

From Aunt Carry's Ballads for Children by Caroline Norton, 1847.

They say that money doesn't make people happy.  That's because money is self-satisfied, as we learn in Revue Pittoresque: Musée Littéraire, 1849.

From Review of Reviews and World's Work, 1890.

From Songs from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lucy Etheldred Broadwood and Lewis Carroll, 1921.

"The last party of the season," from Among the Meadow People by Clara Dillingham Pierson and illustrated by Frederick Charles Gordon, 1897.

From The Ranche on the Oxhide by Henry Inman, 1913.