The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-11-26

when it come to that. Smiley would
ante up money on him as long as he
had red. Smiley was moustrous
|proud of his frog, and well he might
be, Tor fellers that had travelled and
been evcrywhcres. all said he laid
lover any frog that ever they see.
Well, Smiley kept the beast in q
little lattice box, and he used to fetch
him down town sometimes and lay
for bet. One day fe!ler-a stran-
ger in the camp, he was come
acoss him with his box, and says:
"W hat might it be that you've got
in the box ?''
And Smiley says, sorter indif'er-
ent likes ) 1t might be parrot, or it
might be canary, may be, but it
in't-Its only just frog"
And the feller took it, and looked
ct it careful, and turned it round
this way and that, and says, 'H m
so It's, Well, what's he good
for2''
"Well," Smiley says, easy and
careless, Hes good enough. for one
thing, l should judge4he can out
jump airy frog in Calaveras county,
The teller took the box again, and
took another long, particular look,
and gave it back to Smiley, and
says very deliberate, "Well, I don't t
see no p'ints about that frog that's
any better'n any other frog"
May be you don't" Smiley says
MAY be you understand frogs, and
may be you don't understand 'em
may be you've had experience, and
may be you ant only amatnre, as
it were, Anyways, I've got my
opinion, and I'll resk forty dollars
that he can outjamp any frog in
| Calaveras county"
And the feller studied minute,
| and then says, kinder sad like, s'W ell
m only a stranger here, and l an t
got no frog; but if l had frog, I'd
bet you
Aud then Smiley says, s'That's all
ri@ht-that's all right-if you'll hold
my box minnte,In go and get you
q frog" And so the feller took the
box, and put ub his forty dollars
along with Smiley's and set down
| to wait.
So he set there a good wIilc
thinking and thinking to hisself. and
then he got the frog out and pried
his mouth open and took = teaspoon
and filled him full of quail shot
filed him pretty near up to the chi.i
and set him on the floor. Smiley
he went to the swamp and stopped
aromnd in the mud for long time.
and finally he ketehed frog, and
fetched him in, and gave him to this
feller, and says:
Now, if von're ready, set him
alongside of Danl, with his fore
paws just even with DanTs. and I'll
give the word.' then he says,
'' One-two--ttree-jumpn and
him and the feller touched up the
frogs from behind, and the new frog
hoped off lively, but Dan'l give a
heave, and ilystetl Mp his Shoulders
-so-like q ErenchiAan, but it WASH t
no use, he couldn't budge; he was
planted as solid as Il church, and he
| couldn't no more stir than if he was
anchored out. Smiley was a good
deal surprised, and he was disgusted
too, but he didn't have no idea what
the matter was. of course. u
The feller took the money and
started away and when lie was
going out at the door, he sorter
jjerked his thumb over his shoulders
this way--at Dan'l and says
again, Z don't see no p'ints about
that frog that's any better'n any
other frog
Smiley he stood scratching his
head and looking down at Dan'l a
long time, and at last he says, Il do
wonder what in the nation that frog
throw'd off for-I wonder if there
ant something the matter with him
he pears to look mighty paggy,
somehow" And he ketched Dan'l
by the nap of the neck, and lifted
him up and says, "Why blame my
cats, if he don't weigh five pound p
and turned him upside down, and he
belch1d out about double handful
of shot. And then he see how it
was, and he was the maddest mad
he set the frog down and took
out after that feller, but he never
ketched him. And
Here Simon Wheeler heard his
name called from the front yard,
and got up to see what was wanted.
And turning to me as he moved
away, he said: 'sJust set where you
are, Stranger, and rest, easY-I1 an t
going to be gone a second r..
But, by your leave, l did not
think that q continuation of the his
tory OF the enterprising vagabond
Jim Smiley would be likely to afford
me much information concerning
the Rev. Leonidos ". Smiley. and
50 / started away.
At the door I met the sociable
Wheeler returning, aud be button
holed me and recommeced:
NV ell, thish-yer Smiley had a
yaller one eyed COW that did't have
no tail, only jest a short stump like
a bannanner, and - ,-
"Oh! hang Smiley and his afflic-
ted cow!' | muttcred, good natur-
edly. and bidding the old gentleman
ood-day, l departed. .
THURsER-BRED GENTLEMAN.-A