David Law Proudfit
American writer
David Law Proudfit (October 27, 1842 – February 23, 1897) was an American poet and lithographer, who also wrote under the pseudonym Peleg Arkwright.
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- A man sat on a rock and sought
Refreshment from his thumb;
A dinotherium wandered by
And scared him some.
His name was Smith. The kind of rock
He sat upon was shale.
One feature quite distinguished him—
He had a tail.- Prehistoric Smith, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Nature abhors imperfect work
And on it lays her ban;
And all creation must despise
A tailless man.- Prehistoric Smith, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
