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Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor

Bill Nye, James Whitcomb Riley

Read by DrPGould, Stu Hollowell, RecordingPerson, Tom Penn, Cyndy, Sean McElrath, Michael Fassio, Stacy Simon, Kate Follis, Annyiee Hill, Jason in Panama, April6090, tovarisch, brianna and cathicol · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Biographical (6:43)
Why it was done (4:16)
Where He First Met His Parents (4:48)
Never Talk Back (0:59)
The Gruesome Ballad of Mr. Squincher (1:22)
Anecdotes of Jay Gould (9:17)
A Fall Crick View of the Earthquake (2:07)
August (1:15)
Julius Caesar in Town (8:32)
His First Womern (1:26)
This Man Jones (3:17)
How to Hunt the Fox (13:56)
The Boy Friend (1:45)
A Letter of Acceptance (11:46)
In the Afternoon (1:21)
The Rise and Fall of William Johnson (11:27)
From Delphi to Camden (2:28)
The Grammatical Boy (5:45)
Craqueodoom (1:16)
The Chemist of the Carolinas (9:40)
His Crazy-Bone (0:53)
Prying Open the Future (8:00)
Mr. Silberberg (2:38)
Spirits at Home (2:46)
Healthy but out of the Race (7:53)
Lines (1:18)
Me and Mary (2:23)
Niagara Falls from the Nye Side (10:05)
'Curly Locks!' (1:49)
Lines on Turning Over a Pass (6:20)
That Night (1:30)
The Truth about Methuselah (7:48)
A Black Hills Episode (1:41)
The Rossville Lecture Course (3:04)
The Tar-heel Cow (6:43)
A Character (2:41)
The Diary of Darius T. Skinner (4:59)
The Man in the Moon (1:23)
His Christmas Sled (2:01)
Her Tired Hands (9:55)
Ezra House (4:28)
'Oh, Wilhelmina, Come Back!' (5:21)
A Hint of Spring (1:43)
A Treat Ode (1:13)
'Our Wife' (7:20)
My Bachelor Chum (1:41)
The Philanthropical Jay (12:50)
'A Brave Refrain' (1:38)
A Blasted Snore (6:32)
Good-bye er Howdy-do (1:10)
Society Gurgs From Sandy Mush (7:10)
While Cigarettes to Ashes Turn (1:49)
Says He (1:22)
Where the Roads Are Engaged in Forking (8:15)
McFeeters' Fourth (3:58)
In a Box (1:03)
Seeking to Set the Public Right (4:51)
A Dose't of Blues (2:16)
Wanted, a Fox (5:13)
Sutters Claim (1:49)
Seeking to Be Identified (15:56)
The Old Cider Mill (2:41)