The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
- First Published: 1865
- Type of Plot: Tall tale
- Time of Work: 1850
- Setting: Northern California
- Principal Characters: An unnamed narrator, Simon Wheeler, Jim Smiley
- Genres: Short fiction, Tall tale
- Subjects: Gambling, Storytelling, Comedy, Frontier or pioneer life, Frogs
- Locales: California
The Story
The narrator, urged by a friend from the East, decides to call on Simon Wheeler, a good-natured and garrulous old fellow who resides at Angel's Camp, a northern California mining settlement. His errand is to inquire about a certain Reverend Leonidas W. Smiley, but he, the narrator, is already half persuaded that Leonidas W. Smiley never existed. Asking about him will only result in releasing a torrent of Simon Wheeler's boring reminiscences about Jim Smiley.
Simon Wheeler, a genial man, fat and bald-headed, wears a look of perpetual simplicity and tranquillity....
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