"Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease"

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>The wheel that squeaks the loudest
>Is the one that gets the grease.

I find it quoted this way in a newspaper from 1913.

If one does a digital search of Billings' work, one must be careful of
Billings' grotesque spellings: "wheel" is safe, I think, but I don't know
how he would have spelled "skweeks" or "greese" ... or "kikker". I searched
what I could find on-line, with no luck.

-- Doug Wilson