Josh Billings
（重定向自Henry Wheeler Shaw）
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Josh Billings was the pen name of 19th-century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw (April 21, 1818 –October 14, 1885). He was a famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States, perhaps second only to Mark Twain, during the latter half of the 19th century.