The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-04-19
GheGtttelliaetreer,
jim sMILEY's FROG.
mark Twain,s Masterpiece.

marx 1WHluSA MuSteEpl6CGS
Hc cotchela frog one day and took him
home, and said he Cal'lNtctl Oeducatc him
and 50 he never done nothing for thret
months but sit at his back yard and lcIr1l
tho frog how to jump And you bet he
did learn him too. He'd give linn Il It'll!
punch behind and the next minute you'd
see that frog whirling in the mir like q
(lOughnut-seC lin turn Il sllmmCrSct, anu
maybe couple, If he got good start, and
come down tlatfOOtcd and I'LL right like Il
cat lie got him up 80 IN the matter Oi
catching lilies, and kept him in practice SO
constant, that he'd nail IL fly every time us
fur ,ls he could see him.
Smiley said tlINt NIL tho frog wanted was
education, and lie could dO almost any
thing, md believe him. Why I've seen
him vet Daniel Webster down llcrc on the
tloOr-Daniel Webster was the name Of
the frOg-and sing Ont:-"Flies, Dan
flies" and quickGrn you could wink he'd
spring up und shake II fly DIN the count
or there and flop down on the lloOr again
us solid rs u COB Of mud, ind fall to
scratching the side Ofhis head with his
hind foot as Indifferent rs IL he hadn't no
idcu he'd done any MORN any frog might
do. You never seed Il frog 80 modest and
straightforward us he wAs, for all he was so
gilc0. And when Il came 10 IL square
Jumping Oh II dead level, he could get over
more ground ut one stnllldlC than any MI
imal Of his brcGd you ever see. Jumping
on IL dead level was his strong suit, you
understand, and when 1t came TO That
Smiley would ante up money 10 linn us
long rs 10 had u red Smiley was mon
str6fts proud Of bis frog, and well he might
b., for lelIcrs that had travelled and bin
everywhere NIL said that he laid over
every frog they seed.
Well, Smiley kept the beast IN II little
lattice box, nnd he used To fetch il down
town sometimes, AMI lay for II bet. Once
Il irlCr-a stranger in camp, lie was
came across him with his l0X, and says
"Wlat might it bc you've goL in the
bOX!"
And Smiley, sOrtcr Indifferent like:
ut might be u parrot, nr il might he u
canary, maybe; hut il amt, it's only Just Il
frog" :.
And the teller took il and locked at Il
careful, and turned it around this wNyand
that, and says:
"lI'm-s6 It's. Well, what's he Eoml
i6r!"
"WcIl," Smiley says, easy and careless,
"hc's good enough for one thing, Should
judgc-llc Can out jump any frog in Gala
veras county"
The fiIIcr took the box again and took
another long and particular Look, and gives
it back 10 Smiley, and says very deIih'
crate:
mWcll, | don't sec no points about that
frog that's any hcitcr'n any other frog"
"MayhC YOU DON'T" Smiley said. MAY
be you understand frogs, mil maybe you
don't understand EN-; maybe you Hin't
only an amateur, aS il were. Anyways
I've got my opinion, and I'll risk InrtY
dollars tint he can Ontjump any frog In
CalavCElS county.
And the icllcr studied q minute M two,
md then says, kinder sad likc-"WelI,
I'm only stranger here, and ! amt got
no frog, hut il Ind u frog I'll bet You"
And then Smiley Says-"Thats I'LL
NV =" minnie I'm 70 md rit yOll n (roy;''
mi On IiIr frIlrr to0k The Iox and nut IN
liz E'r,,, 'l"Ii"ro oInnv with SmiIrv's anil
a .,,' 'i",:r IN " UNI,
"'s o. oI hc ont thcrc n mod while thinking
a. L;sSN J '' "nI i'll TbS Itor mt nnrl Drfrd
open Ills mouth aud took IL teaspoon md
filled him full Of quail shot-tillcd lin
nrcltv near up TO the chin, and set him on
H. o'' An "S' Sr';Iov H." went ami IN tIle
VI" ,," and s1"E1L srn,NI IN Ihe mmd
c.s it,O "' i'm" Xxi finally Te k.Ichei n
E IoI omT In,cIc, linn in and ,;iv" lin to
t ios c XII" 'o onJ O"v "'" " 80" >
~" "N sSS Il I Won yrc ready 90, him along.
I'LL. w. na,,', ,";I,, lilo SnT,,@ws inst even
S ,.;,i, nar'r, nm, ri ,iv" vou Mn word
TL" I h" saS ., ' Observation-Disclosures ~
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%.'.,, ~" Fr"H " Mo,,;nJ omI The new iror hon.
m ,'oT ~ WIN ,;vnI,. Int nnnT gnvc n 5c,lyr,
If S" VII ~, liz Si,o"Iicr"sn-liEr n French.
r,n nM" IIn /, wnSN't mn usc. he cW,ldn't
Imj%c. h" was nlante,l M solid rs IN anvil
Sv"s =" HrcI"r"d mi Smiley wns II cOpl
deal surprised, and he was lisgnslcd, too,
but lie didn't have no idea What the mat