The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he's still at large.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw, pen name: Josh Billings, 1818-1885, American humorist and lecturer
Image Source: The Vault at Pfaff's - Lehigh University Digital Library
Biography - Travel Writer, Poet, Essayist, Lecturer, Journalist. - The Vault at Pfaff's
Henry Wheeler Shaw was one of the "brightest and most popular humorous men of the day" (J. Derby 239). He was best known as a talented "humorist, a homespun philospher [sic], and a conscious literary artist. One of his chief strengths was originality; in such a graphic epigram as ’when a feller gits a goin down hil, it dus seem as tho evry thing had bin greased for the okashun,’ even the deliberate misspellings fade into the background behind the compelling image" (Kesterson). At age seventeen, Shaw began a ten year exploration of western portions of the United States. In 1845 he returned to Lanesboro, Massachusetts and married Zilpha Bradford. The couple moved repeatedly during the next nine years while Shaw worked as a farmer and a coal miner before settling in Poughkeepsie, New York. . . .
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