Old Probability: Perhaps Rain Perhaps Not

by Josh Billings

Excerpt from Old Perhaps Rain Perhaps Not

After the Billings family once struck the front name, josh, they clung tew it. I find over 6 hundred ov that name extant, besides a grate menny who haz bekum extanted.

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326 pages, Hardcover

First published July 27, 2015

About the author

Josh Billings was the pen name of humorist born Henry Wheeler Shaw. He was perhaps the second most famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States in the second half of the 19th century after Mark Twain, although his reputation has not fared so well with later generations.