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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

by Mark Twain

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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

The narrator's friend suggested asking Wheeler about Leonidas Smiley as a practical joke. The narrator's friend likely knew Wheeler would bore the narrator with long, irrelevant stories, such as the...

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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

The narrator's reaction at the end of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" tells readers that the narrator doesn't believe that Simon Wheeler's tale about Jim Smiley and his frog is...

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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

In "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," the protagonist is Smiley, a man who loves to bet on anything, while the antagonist is the stranger who tricks Smiley by feeding his frog...

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