The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-21

of his hind leg and ffeeze to it, not chaW
YOU understand, but only jest grip AM
hang on till they throWed up the sponge
liz Il was year. Smiley always came on
winner on the pup, ill he hSrnessed
dog once that didn't have no hind legl
because they'd been sawed of by
circular saw, and when the thing
had gone along far enough and the mon
cy was all up, and he come to make
snatch for his pet holt, he saw in . min
ute how he'd been imposed on, and nov
the other dog had him in the door, so L
speak and he 'peared surprised, surprised
and then he looked sorter discouraged
like, and didn't try no more 10 win tn
fight, and so he got shucked out bad. III
give Smiley look, as much as TO say BIZ
heart was broke, and It was his fault
putting up dog that hadn't no hind leg
Tor him 10 take hold Of, which was BIZ
main dependence in a fight, and then hl
limped of piece, and laid down ant
died. 1t was good pup, was that An
drew jackson, and would have made
name for hisself II he'd lived, for thu
stuff was In him, and he had genius
know II, because he hadn't had any OPP
portunities 10 speak Of, and 1t don't stand
10 reason that q dog could make such .
fight as he could under the circumstance
If he hadn't no talent, 1t always make
me feel sorry when / think Of that lasi
fight OF hisn, and the way 1t turned out
Well, this.yer Smiley had rat.tarriers,
and chicken.cock and all them kind OIL
things, till you couldn't rest, and you
couldn't fetch nothing for him to bet on
but he'd match you. he ketched frog
one day and took him home, and said he
cal klated TO edercate him, and 50 he
never done nothing for three months but
sit in his back yard and learn that frog to
Jump And you bet he did learn him,
too. He'd give him little punch behind,
and the next minute you'd see that frog
whirling in the air like doughnut-see
him turn one summerset, or maybe 0
couple, IL he got q goood start, and come
down flat.io0ted and all right like cat
He got him 30 up in the matter OF catch
ing lilies, and kept him in practice so con-
slant, that he'd nail fly every time o
far as LIE could see him. Smiley saidia all
a frog wanted was education, and he
could do most anything; and l believe
him. Why, I've seen himset Danl Web.
ster down here on this foor-DSn'l Web.
ster was the name OF the frog-and
sing out, "Flies, Dan'l, lies," and
Quickcr'n you could wink, he'd spring
right up, and snake fly "otf'n the
counter there, and flop down on the floor
agaiu as solid as a COB of mud, and fall TO
scratching tho side of his head with his
hind foot Gs Indifferent as il he hadn't no
idea he'd been doing any more than any
other frog might do. You never see O
frog so modest and straightforward as he
was, for all no was so gifted. And when
it come TO fair and square jumping on 9
dead level, he could get over more ground
OF one straddle than any animal OF his
breed you ever sec. Jumping on dead
level was his strong suit, you understand;
and when II come to that, Smiley would
ante up money on him long as he had o
red. Smiley was monstrous proud of his
frog, and wellhe might be, for iellers that
had travelled and been eVerywheres, all
said he laid over any frog that ever they
see
We'll, Smiley kept the beast in a little
box, and he used 10 fetch him down town
and lay for o bet. One day a ieller-a
stranger in the camp, he was-come
across him with his box, and says:
"What might 1t be that you've got in
that box?" ..r
And Smiley says, sorter Indifferent like,
ut might boa parrot, or 1t might be q
canary. maybe, but 1t amt, It's only just
And the TELLER took it, and looked at 1t
careful, and turned 1t round this way and
that, and says, "Hm! so It's. Well,
what's he good for?"
swell, Smiley says, easy and careless,
"hGs good enough for one thing ! should.
judge-he can ouGump airy frog in Gala.
verRs county"
The Teller took the box again, and took
another long, particular look, and give 1t
back to Smiley, and says, verV deliberate,
"Well,. / don't sec no p'ints about that
frog that's any better'n any other frog"
"May be you DON'T Smiley says.
"AIay DO you understand frogs, and may
be you don't understand 'em; may be
you've had experience, and may be you
ant only amature as 1t were Any
ways, I've got my opinion, and I'll risk
forty dollars that he can outiump any
frog in Calaveras county,
And the Teller studied minute, and
then says kinder sad like. "Well I'm on.
ly stranger here and ain'tgot no frog,
but If l had frog, I'd bet you"
And then Smiley says. That's all
right-thsts all right; If you'll hold my
box a minute, I'll 60 and git you frog"
And so the TELLER took the box, and put
up his forty dollars along with smiley's,
and set down 10 wait, and set there a good
while thinking and thinking to hisselE.
and then he got the frog out and priced
his mout tn open, and took teaspoon and
filed him with quail shot-flled him
pretty near up to his chin-and set him
on the floor. Smiley he went to the
swamp, and stopped around In the mud
for long time, and finally he ketched q
frog, and fetched him In, and give him to
this teller, and says:
snow, you're ready, set him along.
side ofDan'ls, with his lorepsws just
even with Dan'l, and I'll give the word"
Then he says, Observation-Disclosures
and him and the Teller touched up the
frogs from behind, and the now frog
hoped of, but Dan'l give q heave, and
hoysted up his shoulders-so-like
Frenchman, but it wasn't no use-he
couldn't bulge; he was planted rs solid
as an anvil, and couldn't no more stir
than il he was anchored out. Smiley
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