The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
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- he has sought out Wheeler on the advice on a friend back east who is desperately looking for information about a kid he used to know named Leonidas W. Smiley. All that the friend knows is that the Smiley headed west to minister to miners digging at Angel’s Camp.
- Hello I'm lookin for a man call Leonidas W. Smiley
- A particularly loquacious and utterly verbose fella named Simon Wheeler has related a tall tale to him. Wheeler’s story has to do with an amazing gambler who goes by the name Jim Smiley. Now Smiley is not just any gamble…this guy is willing to take a roll of the dice on anything, but he specializes in games of chance involving animals.
- I'm going to tell you a story about Jim Smiley
- Jim Smiley is an utter fiend for gambling on everything from which one of two birds sitting on a fence would fly away first to when the wife of a particular parson would recover from her illness…or even if she would recover at all.
- I bet you the green bird flies first
- Those stories are nothing compared to the one about Jim Smiley and his jumping frog name Dan’l Webster. Smiley one day boasts to a stranger in camp that Dan’l Webster can outjump any frog in all of Calaveras Country. And he is willing to back up his boast with $40 to anyone with a frog capable of proving him wrong.
- he stranger, alas, has no frog against which Smiley’s frog can compete, but that’s hardly the kind of thing capable of stopping a dedicated gambler. Leaving Dan’l Webster behind with the stranger, Smiley heads to the swamp to find the man a jumping frog. While he’s gone, however, the stranger feeds Dan’l Webster buckshot as a means of increasing his weight and thus reducing his jumping capacity.
- Lacking the time and the desire to hear yet another story, the man makes a quick exit, leaving Wheeler behind to find some other poor soul to bore.
- I have another story of Jim Smiley
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