Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) [Illustrated]

by James Whitcomb Riley, Bill Nye

Overview

This edition features
a linked Table of Contents
44 illustrations

CONTENTS
August — Riley
Anecdotes of Jay Gould — Nye
A Black Hills Episode — Riley
A Blasted Snore — Nye
A Brave Refrain — Riley
A Character — Riley
A Dose't of Blues — Riley
A Fall Creek View of the Earthquake — Riley
A Hint of Spring — Riley
A Letter of Acceptance — Nye
A Treat Ode — Riley
Craqueodoom — Riley
Curly Locks — Riley
Ezra House — Riley
From Delphi to Camden — Riley
Good-bye or Howdy-do — Riley
Healthy, but Out of the Race — Nye
Her Tired Hands — Nye
His Crazy Bone — Riley
His Christmas Sled — Riley
His First Womern — Riley
How to Hunt the Fox — Nye
In a Box — Riley
In the Afternoon — Riley
Julius Caesar in Town — Nye
Lines on Hearing a Cow Bawl — Riley
Lines on Turning Over a Pass — Nye
Me and Mary — Riley
McFeeters' Fourth — Riley
My Bachelor Chum — Riley
Mr Silberberg — Riley
Niagara Falls from the Nye Side — Nye
Never Talk Back — Riley
Oh, Wilhelmina, Come Back — Nye
Our Wife — Nye
Prying Open the Future — Nye
Says He — Riley
Seeking to Be Identified — Nye
Seeking to Set the Public Right — Nye
Spirits at Home — Riley
Society Gurgs from Sandy Mush — Nye
Sutter's Claim — Riley
This Man Jones — Riley
That Night — Riley
The Boy Friend — Riley
The Chemist of the Carolinas — Nye
The Diary of Darius T Skinner — Nye
The Grammatical Boy — Nye
The Gruesome Ballad of Mr Squincher — Riley
The Man in the Moon — Riley
The Philanthropical Jay — Nye
The Truth about Methuselah — Nye
The Tar-heel Cow — Nye
The Rise and Fall of William Johnson — Nye
The Rossville Lecture Course — Riley
Wanted, a Fox — Nye
Where He First Met His Parents — Nye
Where the Roads are Engaged in Forking — Nye
While Cigarettes to Ashes Turn — Riley
Why It Was Done — Nye & Riley

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012797704
Publisher:	Inspiratrix
Publication date:	07/24/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

"JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY (1849 – 1916) was an American writer, poet, and best selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the Hoosier Poet and Children's Poet for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored, the majority are in dialect. His famous works include "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Raggedy Man".

EDGAR WILSON "BILL" NYE (August 25, 1850 – February 22, 1896) was a distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist. He was also the founder and editor of the Laramie Boomerang." -- Wikipeda