The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-03-06

could do most anything, and believe
him. Why, I've seen him set Dan1
Webster down here on this ioor-DanI
Webster was the name of the frog-and
siLg out, "Fhes, Dan1, fiesl" and
quicker'n you could wink, he'd spring
straight up, and snake a fly off'n the
counter there, and flop down on the
floor again as solid as a COB of mud,
and fall to scratching the sides of his
head with his hind foot as Indifferent as
if ne hadn't no idea he'd been doing
any more than any other frog might do,
You never see a frog so modest and
straight. for'ard as he was, for all she
was so gifted. And when it come to
fair and square jumping on 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 understand /;
and when it come to that, Smiley would
ante up money on him as long as he had
red. Smiley was monstrous proud of
this freq, and well he might be, for
fellers that had travelled and been ev-
erywhere, all said he laid over any frog
that ever they see.
Well, Smiley kept the beast in lit
tie box, and he used to bring him down
town and lay for a bet. One day a fell
ler--a stranger in the camp, he was
came across him with his box, and says F;
What might it be that you've got in
that box 7"
And Smiley says, sorter indifferent
like:
at might be a parrot, or it might be
a canary, may be, but it ain't-its only
just frog.
And the feller took it, and looked at
it careful, and turned it round this way
and that, and says: "H'm so It's
Well, what's he good for? ?"
"Well," Smiley says, easy and care
less, "he's good for one thing I should
iudge-he can outiump any frog in Cal
averas county"
The fellow took the box again, and
took another long, particular look, and
and gave it back to Smiley, and says,
very deliberate, "Well, I don't see no
p'ints about that frog that's any
better'n any other frog.
MAYBE you don't, Smiley says.
Maybe you understand frogs, and
maybe you don't understand 'em
maybe you've had experience, and may
be you ant only amature as it We're.
Anyways, I've got my opinion, and I'll
risk forty for dollars that he can out
| jump airy frog in Calaveras county.
And the feller studied minute, and
then says, kinder sad like, ''Well, Tn
only a stranger here, and amt got nc
frog, but if 1 had a frog I'd bet you.
And then Smiley says, "Thats all
right-that's all right; if you'll hold
my box a minute, III go and git you q
frog And so the feller took the boz
and put up his forty dollars along Will
Smiley's and sat down to wait
So he set there a good while, think
ing and thinking to himself, and ther
he got the frog out and priced his
mouth open, and took teaspoon ant
filled him full of quail shot-flled hin
pretty near up TO his chin-and set hin
on the floor. Smiley, he went to the
swamp, and stopped around in the mud
for a long time, and finally he ketchet
a frog, and fetched him in, and gav,
him to this feIler, and says:
"Now, if you're ready, set him along
side of Danl, with his fore paws jus
even with Dan1, and I'll give the word.
Then he says, ne-two-three-
jump, 4" and him and the felIer touched
the frogs from behind, and the new frot
hoped off, but Danl give heave, anC
hysted up his shoulders-so-like &;
Frenchman, but was no use-he couIdn'
bulge he was planted as solid as N
anvil, and he couldn't no more stir THAI
if he was anchored out. Smiley was
good deal surprised, and he was dis
gusted, too, but he didn't have no idei
what the matter was. of course.
The feller took the money and start
ed away; aud when he was going out a
: the door, he sorter ierked his thum'
over his shoulders-this way-at DAM
and says agin, vely deliberate, Well
1 don't see 40 p'ints about that fro
that's any better'n ANY other frog.
Z Smiley, he stood scratching his hea
, and looking down on Dan'l a loag tim,
, and at last he says, y do wonder whs
in tie nation that frog throwed off foi
t 1 wonder if there amt something I'll
, matter with him he pears to loo
' mighty baggy, somehow. And j
, ketched DanI by the nap Of the nee
t and lifted him mp, and says, "Wh,
4 blame my cats, If he don't weigh hV
q pounds" ard turned him upside dow
and he belehed out double handful
e shot. And then we see how it was, an
e he was the maddest man. He set Il
1 frog down and took after that feIle
n but he never ketched him. And
4 Here Simon Wheeler heard his nan
r called from the front yard, and he got u
n to see what was wanted. And turnir
t when he moved away, he said. "Just s
h where you are, stranger. and rest cas-,
it 1 am going 10 be gone a second. "
{ But the stranger did not think tn
e the continuation of the history Of Il
e enterprising vagabond, Jim Smile
a would be likely to afford much inform
-s ton concerning the Rev. LeoHidas ,
J, Smith, and so started away.
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e. 10 be IEFcfleu-f -fBflIer Members IN
pIicatsd Practically ExSnernted.
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= MobilieF Committee was submitted
It the House to-day. 1t IS very volumi
If Gus. The cOmmitte, after stating tho
as views on the question Of the iurisdicti
T, OF the House in the premises, say th
- are Of opinion that the acts OF membe