"The Celebrated Jumping Frog" (1867) is a collection by Mark Twain featuring a famous jumping frog named Dan'l Webster. The story's outcome is determined by a stranger who cheats by weighing down Smiley's frog with quail shot.
Mark Twain's 1867 collection, 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog,' features a story based on a Californian folktale about Jim Smiley's champion frog, Dan'l Webster. The frog is ultimately defeated because a stranger filled its gullet with shot.
| Front | Celebrated Jumping Frog |
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| Back | a collection of stories Twain 1867 the title based on an old Californian folktale Dan'l Webster , the champion jumping frog, is owed by Jim Smiley a stranger claims that any frog could beat him, and sends smiley off to catch another one to have a contest Dan'l is defeated but only because, as Smiley discovers after the race, the stranger had managed to fill his gullet گلوwith quail shot to weigh him down |
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