Bill Nye and James Whitcomb Riley toured together as a lecture team, and this book pairs their work in the same spirit: Nye’s deadpan sketches on meeting his parents, Jay Gould and Julius Caesar in town, alternated with Riley’s dialect poems of the Indiana countryside, from the gruesome ballad of Mr. Squincher to an August afternoon.
A good-humoured sampler of nineteenth-century American platform comedy. Download the free EPUB.