Henry Wheeler Shaw, as Josh Billings, parodied the farmer’s almanac with mock calendars, month-by-month monographs, weather forecasts, family tables and aphorisms, all in his famous phonetic spelling. This collection gathers the issues for 1870 to 1879, from instructions for finding the sign to advice on men with too much grit.
Homespun American wisdom and nonsense from one of the great nineteenth-century humorists. Download the free EPUB.