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Nye Bill. Bill Nye's Sparks
Bill Nye's Sparks
Table of Contents
BIOGRAPHICAL
BILL NYE'S SPARKS
REQUESTING A REMITTANCE
[Personal.]
A PATENT ORATORICAL STEAM ORGANETTE FOR RAILWAY STUMPING
VERITAS
THE DRUG BUSINESS IN KANSAS
THE PERILS OF IDENTIFICATION
A FATHER'S LETTER
THE AZTEC AT HOME
IN THE SOUTH
IN THE PARK
LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD
HE SEES THE CAPITAL
HE SEES THE NAVY
MORE ABOUT WASHINGTON
A GREAT BENEFACTOR
DIVORCES PREPARED. WHILE YOU WAIT!
THE COUPON LETTER OF INTRODUCTION
HOW TO TEACH JOURNALISM
THE GREAT WESTERN CLAIRVOYANT,
HIS GARDEN
WRITTEN TO THE BOY
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
TRIFOLIATA, BELOVED DAUGHTER OF. GERALD AND VASELINE TUBBS, DIED MARCH 27,1888. SHE CAUGHT COLD IN HER FRONT NAME
THE FARMER AND THE TARIFF
A CONVENTIONAL SPEECH
A PLEA FOR ONE IN ADVERSITY
THE RHUBARB-PIE
A COUNTRY FIRE
FRESH PAINT!
ALONZO BURLINGAME,
BIG STEVE
SPEECH OF RED SHIRT, THE FIGHTING CHIEF OF THE SIOUX NATION
TO THE POOR SHINNECOCK
WEBSTER AND HIS GREAT BOOK
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Bill Nye
Published by Good Press, 2021
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I am the man who first suggested the culvert at the Jim street crossing, so that the water would run off toward the pound after a rain. With my ready pen—ready, and trenchant also, as I may say—I have, in my poor, weak way, suggested a great many things which might otherwise have remained for many years unsuggested.
I am the man who annually calls for a celebration of the Fourth of July in our little town, and asks for some young elocutionist to be selected by the committee, whose duty it shall be to read the Declaration of Independence in a shrill voice to those who yearn to be thrilled through and through with patriotism.
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