The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark TWAIN. It -was one of --Twain's earliest --writings, and helped establish his -reputation as a humorist. -He eventually included-- it as the title story in -his first collection of tales.
In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from
the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and
inquired after my friend's friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to
do, and I hereunto append the result.read the short story