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Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor

Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor

by Bill Nye

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Author
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916
Title
Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns)
Credits
Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
American wit and humor
Category
Text
eBook-No.
30131
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30131
Release Date
September 29, 2009
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.NYE AND RILEY'S — Wit and Humor — (Poems and Yarns) — BY
  2. 2.James Whitcomb Riley & Bill Nye — Illustrated BY BARON DE GRIMM, E. ZIMMERMAN, WALT McDOUGALL, AND OTHERS
  3. 3.Biographical — Why it was done.
  4. 4.Contents
  5. 5.Where He First Met His Parents — Never Talk Back
  6. 6.The Gruesome Ballad of Mr. Squincher
  7. 7.Anecdotes of Jay Gould
  8. 8.A Fall Crick View of the Earthquake
  9. 9.August
  10. 10.Julius Cæsar in Town
  11. 11.His First Womern
  12. 12.This Man Jones
  13. 13.How to Hunt the Fox
  14. 14.The Boy Friend
  15. 15.A Letter of Acceptance
  16. 16.In the Afternoon
  17. 17.The Rise and Fall of William Johnson — (A CHRISTMAS STORY)
  18. 18.From Delphi to Camden
  19. 19.The Grammatical Boy
  20. 20.Craqueodoom.
  21. 21.The Chemist of the Carolinas
  22. 22.His Crazy-Bone
  23. 23.Prying Open the Future
  24. 24.Mr. Silberberg
  25. 25.Spirits at Home
  26. 26.Healthy but out of the Race.
  27. 27.Lines — ON HEARING A COW BAWL, IN A DEEP FIT OF DEJECTION, ON THE EVENING OF JULY 3, A. D. 18—
  28. 28.Me and Mary
  29. 29.Niagara Falls from the Nye Side
  30. 30."Curly Locks!"
  31. 31.Lines on Turning Over a Pass
  32. 32.That Night
  33. 33.The Truth about Methuselah
  34. 34.A Black Hills Episode
  35. 35.The Rossville Lecture Course — Rossville , Mich., March, '87.
  36. 36.The Tar-heel Cow
  37. 37.A Character
  38. 38.The Diary of Darius T. Skinner
  39. 39.THE MAN IN THE MOON
  40. 40.His Christmas Sled.
  41. 41.Her Tired Hands
  42. 42.Ezra House
  43. 43."Oh, Wilhelmina, Come Back!"
  44. 44.A HINT of SPRING.
  45. 45.A Treat Ode
  46. 46."Our Wife"
  47. 47.My Bachelor Chum
  48. 48.The Philanthropical Jay
  49. 49."A Brave Refrain."
  50. 50.A Blasted Snore
  51. 51.Good-bye er Howdy-do
  52. 52.Society Gurgs From Sandy Mush
  53. 53.While Cigarettes to Ashes Turn
  54. 54.Says He
  55. 55.Where the Roads Are Engaged in Forking
  56. 56.McFeeters' Fourth
  57. 57.In a Box
  58. 58.Seeking to Set the Public Right
  59. 59.A Dose't of Blues
  60. 60.Wanted, a Fox
  61. 61.SUTTERS CLAIM
  62. 62.Seeking to Be Identified
  63. 63.THE OLD CIDER MILL.

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