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The Notorious Jumping Frog
“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain is a story about Jim Smiley, a notorious gambler, who was cheated when a stranger fed his frog, and Jim lost a bet. Jim’s story is told to the narrator by Simon Wheeler, a talkative elderly man living in a mining settlement named Angel’s Camp. Before he instructed his frog, Smiley made a bunch of illegal schemes, one of which involving a bull-pup called Andrew Jackson, who won dog fights. The stranger bet Smiley $40 that his frog couldn’t jump further than an average frog. While he wasn’t looking, the stranger filled Smiley’s frog with buckshot. Smiley didn’t realize this until it was too late and there was no way to get his money back. The language Twain used in writing this story
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