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Bill Nye’s Chestnuts Old and New

by Bill Nye

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  1. 1Chestnut-Burr. I — The Shakespeare-Bacon Puzzle Wrestled With Consc…
  2. 2Chestnut-Burr II — How the Glorious Fourth Was Celebrated at Whalen…
  3. 3Encouraging Green Jokes
  4. 4Chestnut-Burr III — Bill Nye Finds Colorow Full of Odd Traits
  5. 5Awkwardness of Carrying Whisky About
  6. 6The Right Sort of Boy
  7. 7Chestnut-Burr IV — Bill Nye Pays a Brief Visit to a Professional St…
  8. 8Ingratitude of the Human Heart
  9. 9Chestnut-Burr V — Concerning the French Masterpieces at the Academy…
  10. 10Chestnut-Burr VI — Bill Nye Diagnosticates the Plaint of a Country…
  11. 11Men Are Often Misunderstood
  12. 12Chestnut-Burr VII — Bill Nye in the Role of an Ute Indian Jenkins
  13. 13Sure Cure for Biliousness
  14. 14Chestnut-Burr VIII — In an Unguarded Moment Bill Nye Is Captured by…
  15. 15Virtue Its Own Reward
  16. 16Chestnut-Burr IX — Bill Nye Descants Upon Young Ives’s Ideas in Fin…
  17. 17The Anti-Clinker Base-Burner Bee
  18. 18Chestnut-Burr X — A Few Remarks on Our Hostelry System as It Now Pr…
  19. 19Pity for Sad-Eyed Husbands
  20. 20Marriage
  21. 21Chestnut-Burr XI — William Nye Visits Royalty From the Home of the…
  22. 22Thai X Did Mot Du’
  23. 23A Word of Explanation
  24. 24Chestnut-Burr — The Humorist Interviews His Grace the Duke in the I…
  25. 25The Chinese Compositor
  26. 26The True American — Chestnut-Burr — XII “The Old Man Eloquent”
  27. 27Chestnut-Burr XIV — The Amende Honorable
  28. 28Sweet Influences of Changing Seasons
  29. 29The March of Civilization
  30. 30Chestnut-Burr. XV — A Big Corner on Pork
  31. 31Chestnut-Burr Xvi-Patrick Oleson
  32. 32Pleasures of Spring
  33. 33An Unclouded Welcome
  34. 34Too Much God and No Flour
  35. 35Chestnut-Burr. XVII — Longing for Home
  36. 36Dignity
  37. 37Chapter I
  38. 38Chapter II
  39. 39Chapter III
  40. 40Chapter IV
  41. 41Chestnut-Burr XIX — A Story of Spotted Tail
  42. 42Chestnut-Burr XX — The Romance of Horse-Shoeing
  43. 43How to Preserve Teeth
  44. 44Chestnut-Burr XXI — Experience on the Feverish Hornet
  45. 45The Picnic Plant
  46. 46Chestnut-Burr XXII — Ancient Bric-a-Brac
  47. 47Joint Powder
  48. 48Chestnut-Burr XIII — The Two-Headed Girl
  49. 49Our Compliments
  50. 50Chestnut-Burr XIV — A Pathetic Episode in Northern Wisconsin
  51. 51The Secret of Health
  52. 52Chestnut-Burr XXV — Bill Nye Essays a Novelette
  53. 53Chestnut-Burr XXVI — The Daughter of Bob Tail Flush
  54. 54Loafing Around Home
  55. 55The Plumage of the Ostrich
  56. 56Some Earnest Thoughts
  57. 57Chestnut-Burr XXVII — Our Great National Motto
  58. 58A Grave Question
  59. 59Thoughts
  60. 60Chestnut-Burr XVIII — Bill Nye at a Tournament
  61. 61Chestnut-Burr XXIX — A Social Curse — The Man Who Interrupts
  62. 62Chestnut-Burr XXX — A Discourse on Cats
  63. 63Chestnut-Burr XXXI — The Great Oration of Spartacus
  64. 64Chestnut-Burr — Woman’s Suffrage in Wyoming
  65. 65Pigeon-Toed Pete
  66. 66Chestnut-Burr — Concerning the Swallow
  67. 67The Happy Codfish
  68. 68Chestnut-Burr XXXIV — A Novel Way of Marking Clothes
  69. 69Chestnut-Burr XXXV — The Unhappy Humorist
  70. 70Laramie’s Handkerchief
  71. 71Chestnut-Burr XXXVI — The Soda Lakes of Wyoming
  72. 72The Costly Watermelon
  73. 73Chestnut-Burr XXXVII — Views of Chicago
  74. 74Chestnut-Burr XXXVIII — A School of Journalism
  75. 75Modern Fiction Is Unreliable
  76. 76Chestnut-Burr XXXIX — Some Facts of Science
  77. 77Chestnut-Burr XL — Sorrows of a One-Legged Man
  78. 78The True Poet Loves Seclusion
  79. 79Chestnut-Burr XLI — Revelation in Utah
  80. 80The Model Sleeping-Car
  81. 81Chestnut-Burr XLII — The Tongue-Destroying French Language
  82. 82Carving Schools
  83. 83Chestnut-Burr XLIV — One Touch of Nature
  84. 84How to Deal With the Revolver Difficulty
  85. 85The Female Artiste
  86. 86Chestnut-Burr XLV — Fun of Being a Publisher
  87. 87A Lesson From the Mule
  88. 88Chestnut-Burr XLVI — Performance of the Phoenix
  89. 89Firmness
  90. 90Pugilist or Statesman
  91. 91Chestnut-Burr Nye as a Critic and Nye as a Poet
  92. 92Poems by Bill Nye — Apostrophe to an Orphan Mule.=
  93. 93Ode to Spring
  94. 94The Picnic Snoozer’s Lament
  95. 95Ode to the Cucumber.=
  96. 96Apostrophe Addressed to O. Wilde.=
  97. 97Adjustable Campaign Song.=
  98. 98The Beautiful Snow.=
  99. 99The True Tale of William Tell
  100. 100Why We Weep
  101. 101Etiquette for the Young
  102. 102Sweet Saint Valentine
  103. 103Carrying Revolvers
  104. 104The Agitated Hen
  105. 105Bankrupt Sale of Literary Gems
  106. 106Hints on Letter-Writing
  107. 107Sudden Fame
  108. 108The English Joke

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