Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's "Leaves o' Grass"

Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's «Leaves o' Grass» is a collection of short humoresques by Bill Nye. Nye was an American 19th century humorist. Excerpt: «Interrupters are of two classes: First, the common plug who thinks aloud, and whose conversation wanders with his so-called mind. He breaks into the saddest and sweetest of sentiment, and the choicest and most tearful of pathos, with the remorseless ignorance that marks a stump-tail cow in a dahlia bed. He is the bull in my china shop, the wormwood in my wine, and the kerosene in my maple syrup. I am shy in conversation, and my unfettered flights of poesy and sentiment are rare, but this man is always near to mar all with a remark, or a marginal note, or a story or a bit of politics, ready to bust my beautiful dream and make me wish that his name might be carved on a marble slab in some quiet cemetery, far away.»