celebrated frog
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- The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
- I told him a friend of mine had commissioned me to make some inquiries about a cherished companion of his boyhood named Leonidas W. Smiley.
- Parson Walker's wife laid very sick once, for a good while, and it seemed as if they warn't going to save her.
- "Well, I'll resk two-and-a-half she don't anyway."
- Why, it never made no difference to him - he'd bet on anything - the dangdest feller.
- And he had a little small bull-pup, that to look at him you'd think he warn't worth a cent...but as soon as money was up on him he was a different dog.
- Smiley always come out winner on that pup, till he harnessed a dog once that didn't have no hind legs.
- He ketched a frog one day and took him home, and said he cal'lated to educate him... and learn that frog to jump.
- "He's good enough for one thing, I should judge - he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county."
- Well, Smiley kep' the beast in a little lattice box, and he used to fetch him down town sometimes and lay for a bet.
- "Maybe you don't, maybe you understand frogs and maybe you don't understand 'em... anyways I've got my opinion and I'll resk forty dollars that he can out jump any frog in Calaveras county."
- "Well, I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog."
- And so the feller took the box, and put up his forty dollars along with Smiley's, and set down to wait for Smiley to get a frog.
- So he got the frog out and prized his mouth open and took a teaspoon and filled him full of quail shot.
- "Well, I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog."
- "Why blame my cats if he don't weigh five pound!"
- The feller took the money and started away.
- Dan'l give a heave, and hysted up his shoulders so like a Frenchman, but it warn't no use - he couldn't budge; he was planted as solid as a church, adn he couldn't no more stir than if he was anchored out.
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