Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's ''Leaves o' Grass''
Author(s): Bill Nye
Genre(s): Humorous Fiction
Narrators: Scotty Smith
Number of Chapters: 30
Length: 06 hours and 34 minutes
Language: English
There can really be no excuse for this last book of trite and beautiful sayings. I do not attempt, in any way, to palliate this great wrong. I would not do so even if I had an idea what palliate meant. . . . I have taken great care to thoroughly eradicate anything that would have the appearance of poetry in this work, and there is not a thought or suggestion contained in it that would soil the most delicate fabric.
Do not read it all at once, however, in order to see whether he married the girl or not. Take a little at a time, and it will cure gloom on the "similia simili-bus curanter" principle. - Summary by Bill Nye