"Pretty soon he told himself, he would get up and find something to eat, and promptly fell asleep, the sound of music and voices in his ear."  From Improvement Era, 1939.

"Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson, must remember the Kaatskull mountains."  From Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving and illustrated by George H. Boughton, 1907.

From Susquehanna University's 1932 yearbook.

"The Tempest is a dream, or presents life as a dream" (Anthony B. Dawson, Indirections: Shakespeare and the Art of Illusion, 1978).  From Valparaiso University's 1968 yearbook.

Reblog if you're as a cool as a parkbench walker.  From Elizabethtown's 1940 yearbook.

"Weakly, insolent and rested" as opposed to "healthy, wealthy and wise."  From The Current Sauce, 1957.

You've heard about "sleeping like a log," but here's how to sleep under The Log.  From Salem's 1975 yearbook.

"You have waked me too soon; I must slumber again."  From Scribner's 1877.

From Monmouth College's 1918 yearbook.

From Elves and Ellefolk by Natalia Balting and illustrated by Gordon Laite.

From Flute and Violin, and Other Kentucky Tales and Romances by James Lane Allen, 1899.

From Ole Miss's 1910 yearbook.

From Homespun Stories by Clara Denton, 1924.

That feeling when the story you're telling is so well-known that you're obliged to add the word "famous" to every major plot point.  From Mother Goose Secrets by Barbara Webb Bourjaily, 1925.

Here's the reason why.  From King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 1908. 

From Memphis State's 1969 yearbook.

From Canadian Fairy Tales by Cyrus Macmillan and illustrated by Marcia Lane Foster, 1922.

From Chicago State's 1951 yearbook.