Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's ''Leaves o' Grass''
Author: first_name: Bill
last_name: Nye
Language: English
Year: 1884

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