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Cheese Mites or, Lilliputians in a London Restaurant (1901)
 

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A man, sitting at a restaurant table, orders and drinks a beer. A miniature figure of a boy appears on his beer glass, then two more, a boy and a girl, appear from a large round cheese. The two boys rough and tumble together, while the man laughs heartily.