The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-08-18

e-AuausT IS. Isl
k1usEfxNG FROG,


Ward and learn that frog TO
And you bet he did LEARN him
HID give him little punch be.
and the next minute you'd see
frog whiflng in the air like q
kughnut-see him turn q sunmerset,
nd maybe a couple, il he got good
ystart, and come down flai-iooted and
all right. like eat. He got him up
so in the matter OF catching flies, aud
kept him in practice so constantly,
that he'd nail fly every time, as lar
as he could see him.
Smiley said that all the frog want
d.was education, and he could do al
most everything; and / believe HIM.
Why. I've seen him set Daniel Web
ster down here on the fioor-Daniel
Webster was the name of, the frog
and sing: .fies, Danl tlles," and
kuick'rn you could wink he'd spring
mp and snake fly otf'n the counter
there and iiop down on the floor again
as solid as COB OF mud, and fall TO
scratching the side OF hls head with
his hind foot as Indifferent as II he
hadn't no idee he'd done any more n
any frog might do. You never seed
a frog so modest and straightfor ard
as he was so gifted. And when he
came for square jump on q dead
level, he could get over more ground
at one straddle than any animal OF his
breed you ever see. Jumping on
dead level was his strong suit, you un-
derstand, and when it come 10 that,
Smiley would ante up money on hlm
as long as he had q. red. Smiley was
monstrous proud of that frog, and
he might be for fellers that had
rasel 81 and been everywhere, all
said that he laid over every frog that
Fthey ever seed.
Well, Smiley kept the beast in
|little lattice box, anu he used TO iescl
it down town sometimes, and lay 1or
q bet. Once a Teller stranger II
camp, he was-eame across nm w.tn
his box, and says:
aWhat might it be you've got in
the box"
1T might be a parrot, or it might
be canary, maybe; but 1t amt; it's
only jist frog.
And the felier took it and looked
at it carefully, and turned 1t around
this way and that, and says:
aHim-so it is. Well, what is he
good fors"
sWell,n Smiley says, easy and care
less, 9he's good enough 1of one thing,
l should judge-he can out jump any
frog in Calaveras county.
The fellow took the box agaln, and
took another very long and pare.ealaf
look, and gives it back TO Smiley. anu
says very deliberately:
aWell, / don't see no points about
that frog that's better than any other
frog
aMabey you don't Smiley said,
AsIaybe g you underst nd irogs, and
maybe you are only an amateur. as it
were. Anyways I've got my op.n.on
aud I'll risk forty dollars tnat he can
out jump any frog in CalaveraS coun-
And the feller studied minute or
two, and then says. kinder sad like,
.Well, I'm only stranger here, and
I amt got a frog but II / had, Id bet
you"
And then Smiley says: ''That's all /
right; that's all right ITyou'li hold
my box a minute, I'll 60 and get you
a frog And so the teller TOOK the |
frog and put up his forty dollars +
along with Smlley's and set down to
wait.
So he set there a good while, think
ing to himself, and took the frog out
and spread open his mouth, and took
a teaspoon and filed him full of quail
shot-flled bin pretty near up to the
chin, and set him on the floor. Smi-
lev went out to the swamp aud
around in the mud for long
time, and finally he ketched frog
and fetched him in, and give him othe
feller, and says:
Now, if you are ready, set him
along side of Dan'l, with his forepaws
list even with Dan'l, and I'll give you
the word. Then he says: "One, two,
three-iumpi" and the felier touched
them up behind, and the strangers
frog hoped off lively but Dan'I gave
a heave, histed up his shoulders-so
IKE Frenchman, but it wasn't any
use; he was planted solid as an anvil,
and he couldn't no more stir than if
be was anchored ont. Smiley was a
good deal surprised, and he was dis
1usted, too, but he didn't have no
Idea what the matter was of course.
The feller1 took the money and
started away; and when he was going
out of the door he sorter jerked his
thumb over his shoulder-shss way,
1t Dan'l, and says aga.n, very dellber-
ately-eWeIl. [ don't see no points
about that frog that's any better than
my other frog
Smiley stood scratching his head
md looking down on Dan1 long
lime. and at last says: [ wonder
what in the nation that frog throwed
off for, wonder if there amt some
hing the matter with him: he pears
10 look mighty baggy somehow and
ae ketched Dan'l by the nap Of the
neck, and lifted him up and says
WHY, blame my cat, if he dosn't way
i've pounds and he turned him up
,ide down; and he belched out a
1ouble handful of shot, and then he
vas the maddest man! He set the
rog down and took after the feller,
1ut he never ketched him.
A married woman in Kansas, who
eloped with physician, left
,he following unique note for her
husband:
,vv,r,pv-Y Yo,1sro x.1avad ont |