Remarks
by Bill Nye
Ah Sin was his name; And I shall not deny, In regard to the same, What the name might imply: But his smile it was pensive and childlike, As I frequent remarked to Bill Nye.
–Bret Harte.
Continue... Preface • Directions • My School Days • Recollections of Noah Webster • To Her Majesty • Habits of a Literary Man • A Father’s Letter • Archimedes • Anatomy • Mr. Sweeney’s Cat • The Heyday of Life • They Fell • Second Letter to the President • Milling in Pompeii • Broncho Sam • How Evolution Evolves • Hours With Great Men • Concerning Coroners • Down East Rum • Railway Etiquette • B. Franklin, Deceased • Life Insurance as a Health Restorer • The Opium Habit • More Paternal Correspondence • Twombley’s Tale • On Cyclones • The Arabian Language • Verona • A Great Upheaval • The Weeping Woman • The Crops • Literary Freaks • A Father’s Advice to His Son • Eccentricity in Lunch • Insomnia in Domestic Animals • Along Lake Superior • I Tried Milling • Our Forefathers • Preventing a Scandal • About Portraits • The Old South • Knights of the Pen • The Wild Cow • Spinal Meningitis • Skimming the Milky Way • A Thrilling Experience • Catching a Buffalo • John Adams • Bunker Hill • A Lumber Camp • My Lecture Abroad • The Miner at Home • An Operatic Entertainment • Dogs and Dog Days • Christopher Columbus • Accepting the Laramie Postoffice • A Journalistic Tenderfoot • The Amateur Carpenter • The Average Hen • Woodtick William’s Story • In Washington • My Experience as an Agriculturist • A New Autograph Album • A Resign • My Mine • Mush and Melody • The Blase Young Man • History of Babylon • Lovely Horrors • The Bite of a Mad Dog • Arnold Winkelreid • Murray and the Mormons • About Geology • A Wallula Night • Flying Machines • Asking for a Pass • Words About Washington • The Board of Trade • Stirring Incidents at a Fire • The Little Barefoot Boy • Favored a Higher Fine • Man Overbored • Picnic Incidents • Nero • Squaw Jim • Squaw Jim’s Religion • One Kind of Fool • John Adams’ Diary • The Approaching Humorist • What We Eat • Care of House Plants • A Peaceable Man
This full etext Remarks (Part A, also see Part B) of 1888 by Bill Nye (Edgar W. Nye) is public domain (thanks to Project Gutenberg).
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