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Nye, Bill

Read by peac, DJRickyV, realisticspeakers, Kalynda, deongines, Phillip Moyer, mbm0rxi, Diana Schmidt, BettyB, Bruce Kachuk, jinney, Zecru, Linda Johnson and SK · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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Chapters

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01 - Directions (3:33)
02 - My School Days - Recollections of Noah Webster (8:09)
03 - To Her Majesty - Habits of a Literary Man (10:21)
04 - A Father's Letter - Archimedes (6:55)
05 - To the President-Elect - Anatomy (7:44)
06 - Mr. Sweeney's Cat - The Heyday of Life (9:07)
07 - They Fell - Second Letter to the President (9:33)
08 - Milling in Pompeii - Broncho Sam (10:00)
09 - How Evolution Evolves - Hours With Great Men (10:29)
10 - Concerning Coroners - Down East Rum (10:12)
11 - Railway Etiquette - B. Franklin, Deceased (9:49)
12 - Life Insurance as a Health Restorer - The Opium Habit (6:18)
13 - More Paternal Correspondence - Twombley's Tale (12:05)
14 - On Cyclones - The Arabian Language (8:10)
15 - Verona - A Great Upheaval (11:55)
16 - The Weeping Woman - The Crops (11:38)
17 - Literary Freaks - A Father's Advice to His Son (9:28)
18 - Eccentricity in Lunch - Insomnia in Domestic Animals (10:04)
19 - Along Lake Superior - I Tried Milling (12:04)
20 - Our Forefathers - In Acknowledgement (11:46)
21 - Preventing a Scandal - About Portraits (10:20)
22 - The Old South - Knights of the Pen (10:29)
23 - The Wild Cow -Spinal Meningitis (7:30)
24 - Skimming the Milky Way - A Thrilling Experience (19:04)
25 - Catching a Buffalo - John Adams (11:57)
26 - The Wail Of A Wife - Bunker Hill (11:24)
27 - A Lumber Camp - My Lecture Abroad (8:43)
28 - The Miner at Home - An Operatic Entertainment (10:25)
29 - Dogs and Dog Days - Christopher Columbus (10:24)
30 - Accepting the Laramie Postoffice - A Journalistic Tenderfoot (7:01)
31 - The Amateur Carpenter - The Average Hen (8:40)
32 - Woodtick William's Story - In Washington (10:20)
33 - My Experience as an Agriculturist - A New Autograph Album (10:21)
34 - A Resign - My Mine (9:53)
35 - Mush and Melody - The Blase Young Man (8:55)
36 - History of Babylon - Lovely Horrors (12:09)
37 - The Bite of a Mad Dog - Arnold Winkelreid (7:36)
38 - Murray and the Mormons - About Geology (10:35)
39 - A Wallula Night - Flying Machines (11:05)
40 - Asking for a Pass - Words About Washington (10:04)
41 - The Board of Trade - The Cow-Boy (8:58)
42 - Stirring Incidents at a Fire - The Little Barefoot Boy (10:59)
43 - Favored a Higher Fine - I Spy. (8:05)
44 - Mark Anthony - Man Overbored (10:51)
45 - Done It A-Purpose.- Picnic Incidents (13:13)
46 - Nero - Squaw Jim (10:31)
47 - Squaw Jim's Religion - One Kind of Fool (7:01)
48 - John Adams' Diary - John Adams' Diary. (No. 2.) (10:13)
49 - John Adams' Diary (No. 3.) - Heap Brain. (8:49)
50 - The Approaching Humorist - What We Eat (9:28)
51 - Care of House Plants - A Peaceable Man. (8:35)
52 - Biography of Spartacus - Concerning Book Publishing. (11:09)
53 - A Calm. - The Story of a Struggler. (15:35)
54 - The Old Subscriber. - My Dog. (19:51)
55 - A Picturesque Picnic. - Taxidermy. (13:18)
56 - The Ways of Doctors.- Absent Minded. (8:12)
57 - Woman's Wonderful Influence. - Causes for Thanksgiving. (12:18)
58 - Farming in Maine. - Doosedly Dilatory. (11:49)
59 - Every Man His Own Paper Hanger. - Sixty Minutes in America. (11:32)
60 - Rev. Mr. Hallelujah's Hoss. - Somnambulism and Crime. (8:05)
61 - Modern Architecture. - Letter to a Communist. (10:30)
62 - The Warrior's Oration. - The Holy Terror. (8:12)
63 - Boston Common and Environs. - Drunk in a Plug Hat. (11:47)
64 - Spring. - The Duke of Rawhide. (6:31)
65 - Etiquette at Hotels. - Fifteen Years Apart. (10:48)
66 - Dessicated Mule. - Time's Changes. (8:54)
67 - Letter From New York. - Crowns and Crowned Heads. (7:53)
68 - My Physician. - All About Oratory. (9:41)
69 - Strabusmus and Justice. - A Spencerian Ass. (7:26)
70 - Anecdotes of Justice. - The Chinese God. (10:17)
71 - A Great Spiritualist. - General Sheridan's Horse. (8:02)
72 - A Circular. - The Photograph Habit. (9:27)
73 - Rosalinde. - The Church Debt. (7:49)
74 - A Collection of Keys. - Extracts from a Queen's Diary. (7:48)
75 - Shorts. - We. (6:48)
76 - A Mountain Snowstorm. - Lost Money. (10:17)
77 - Dr. Dizart's Dog. - Chinese Justice. (8:06)
78 - Answers to Correspondents. - Great Sacrifice of Bric-a-brac. (12:22)
79 - A Convention. - Come Back. (8:12)
80 - A New Play. - The Silver Dollar. (11:08)
81 - Polygamy as a Religious Duty. - The Newspaper. (18:20)
82 - Wrestling with the Mazy. - Anecdotes of the Stage. (9:43)
83 - George the Third. - The Cell Nest. (9:41)
84 - Parental Advice. - Early Day Justice. (9:29)
85 - The Indian Orator. - You Heah Me, Sah! (8:54)
86 - Plato. - The Expensive Word. (10:14)
87 - Petticoats at the Polls. - The Sedentary Hen. (9:30)
88 - A Bright Future for Pugilism. - The Snake Indian. (11:56)
89 - Roller Skating. - No More Frontier. (9:25)
90 - A Letter of Regrets. - Venice. (10:08)
91 - She Kind of Coaxed Him. - Answering an Invitation. (15:47)
92 - Street Cars and Curiosities. -The Poor Blind Pig. (13:32)
93 - Daniel Webster. - Two Ways of Telling It. (11:14)
94 - All About Menials. - A Powerful Speech. (9:25)
95 - A Goat in a Frame. - To a Married Man. (9:22)
96 - To an Embryo Poet. - Eccentricities of Genius. (12:10)

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