The article profiles Charles Farrar Browne, a 19th century American humor writer. Brown was born in Waterford, Maine. He began working at the age of 13 in a printer's trade and eventually landed in a publication company in Boston, which introduced his comic sketches. He later became the most sought after humorist and lecturer and was known for using metaplasm in language. He contracted tuberculosis in 1867, which led to his death at the age of 33.