Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor
Bill Nye and James Whitcomb Riley
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
"What this country needs, aside from a new Indian policy and a style of poison for children which will be liable to kill rats if they eat it by accident, is a Railway Guide which will be just as good two years ago as it was next spring—a Railway Guide, if you please, which shall not be cursed by a plethora of facts, or poisoned with information—a Railway Guide that shall be rich with doubts and lighted up with miserable apprehensions. In other Railway Guides, pleasing fancy, poesy and literary beauty, have been throttled at the very threshold of success, by a wild incontinence of facts, figures, asterisks and references to meal stations. For this reason a guide has been built at our own shops and on a new plan. It is the literary piece de resistance of the age in which we live. It will not permit information to creep in and mar the reader's enjoyment of the scenery. It contains no railroad map which is grossly inaccurate. It has no time-table in it which has outlived its uselessness. It does not prohibit passengers from riding on the platform while the cars are in motion. It permits every one to do just as he pleases and rather encourages him in taking that course." - Bill Nye (4 hr 49 min)
Chapters
| Biographical | 6:43 | Read by DrPGould |
| Why it was done | 4:16 | Read by Stu Hollowell |
| Where He First Met His Parents | 4:48 | Read by Stu Hollowell |
| Never Talk Back | 0:59 | Read by RecordingPerson |
| The Gruesome Ballad of Mr. Squincher | 1:22 | Read by RecordingPerson |
| Anecdotes of Jay Gould | 9:17 | Read by Tom Penn |
| A Fall Crick View of the Earthquake | 2:07 | Read by Cyndy |
| August | 1:15 | Read by Sean McElrath |
| Julius Caesar in Town | 8:32 | Read by Michael Fassio |
| His First Womern | 1:26 | Read by Tom Penn |
| This Man Jones | 3:17 | Read by Stacy Simon |
| How to Hunt the Fox | 13:56 | Read by Kate Follis |
| The Boy Friend | 1:45 | Read by Kate Follis |
| A Letter of Acceptance | 11:46 | Read by DrPGould |
| In the Afternoon | 1:21 | Read by RecordingPerson |
| The Rise and Fall of William Johnson | 11:27 | Read by Tom Penn |
| From Delphi to Camden | 2:28 | Read by Stacy Simon |
| The Grammatical Boy | 5:45 | Read by DrPGould |
| Craqueodoom | 1:16 | Read by RecordingPerson |
| The Chemist of the Carolinas | 9:40 | Read by Kate Follis |
| His Crazy-Bone | 0:53 | Read by Stacy Simon |
| Prying Open the Future | 8:00 | Read by DrPGould |
| Mr. Silberberg | 2:38 | Read by Annyiee Hill |
| Spirits at Home | 2:46 | Read by Annyiee Hill |
| Healthy but out of the Race | 7:53 | Read by DrPGould |
| Lines | 1:18 | Read by DrPGould |
| Me and Mary | 2:23 | Read by Cyndy |
| Niagara Falls from the Nye Side | 10:05 | Read by Jason in Panama |
| 'Curly Locks!' | 1:49 | Read by Jason in Panama |
| Lines on Turning Over a Pass | 6:20 | Read by Jason in Panama |
| That Night | 1:30 | Read by Jason in Panama |
| The Truth about Methuselah | 7:48 | Read by Jason in Panama |
| A Black Hills Episode | 1:41 | Read by Jason in Panama |
| The Rossville Lecture Course | 3:04 | Read by DrPGould |
| The Tar-heel Cow | 6:43 | Read by April6090 |
| A Character | 2:41 | Read by Sean McElrath |
| The Diary of Darius T. Skinner | 4:59 | Read by DrPGould |
| The Man in the Moon | 1:23 | Read by RecordingPerson |
| His Christmas Sled | 2:01 | Read by tovarisch |
| Her Tired Hands | 9:55 | Read by DrPGould |
| Ezra House | 4:28 | Read by brianna |
| 'Oh, Wilhelmina, Come Back!' | 5:21 | Read by Annyiee Hill |
| A Hint of Spring | 1:43 | Read by tovarisch |
| A Treat Ode | 1:13 | Read by RecordingPerson |
| 'Our Wife' | 7:20 | Read by DrPGould |
| My Bachelor Chum | 1:41 | Read by RecordingPerson |
| The Philanthropical Jay | 12:50 | Read by tovarisch |
| 'A Brave Refrain' | 1:38 | Read by DrPGould |
| A Blasted Snore | 6:32 | Read by April6090 |
| Good-bye er Howdy-do | 1:10 | Read by RecordingPerson |
| Society Gurgs From Sandy Mush | 7:10 | Read by Annyiee Hill |
| While Cigarettes to Ashes Turn | 1:49 | Read by RecordingPerson |
| Says He | 1:22 | Read by DrPGould |
| Where the Roads Are Engaged in Forking | 8:15 | Read by tovarisch |
| McFeeters' Fourth | 3:58 | Read by brianna |
| In a Box | 1:03 | Read by RecordingPerson |
| Seeking to Set the Public Right | 4:51 | Read by DrPGould |
| A Dose't of Blues | 2:16 | Read by Tom Penn |
| Wanted, a Fox | 5:13 | Read by cathicol |
| Sutters Claim | 1:49 | Read by Tom Penn |
| Seeking to Be Identified | 15:56 | Read by tovarisch |
| The Old Cider Mill | 2:41 | Read by tovarisch |