The Detroit times., 1910-09-12
Iere's the Story Of
The Jumping Frog Of
CaIaveras County
YELLING How the Owner of the
Frog Trusted IL To q Stranger
aSS ROW ths Stranger Filled
II With Shot SO IL
r Couldn't Jump.

W Couldn't Jump terriers and chicken-cock
you nothing him out
he'd match kehed day and took him home and said
yard frog jump And he
Aid him. He'd him little punch behind and the next
maybe he good start and
an aafOoted and all right like cat He got him SO in the matter
he'd
every him Smiley said all wanted
educaion and he could do most anyhngand believe him
Webster the Of the gand sing out Flies Dan aes and
there and flop down the floor agn solid COB Of mud
fall to scratching side of his head with hi. hind foot rent
modest and raghta he for all he
could get over more ground radd
you Jumping dead level his suit understand
i had red Smiley was proud and well he
BE- for f that had travelled and been verywheres all said he laid
wen Smiley kept little he used
fetch him bet day ler-a
stranger camp acrost him with his box and
might it be that you've got in the box box. =. ,,. r,t =
might be canary maybe but it antts only just frog
M way and that and says HIM Well good
"we Smiley says and careless he's good enough for
lsr took the box agn and took another long
and give bse. to smiley and says very Well , he
Maybe don't Smiley Maybe you understand frogs and
yoa amt only amateur Anyways got opinion and
III rssk forty dollars that he can outump any frog in Calavsa UNITY
I'm here and amt got frog but had frog I'd
Smiley that's all right that's all right you'll hold
~ minute I'll frog And the Teller took the
box .ss his ss s'ss S an thinking aa sd
got pd his mouth and took and
him the floor Smiley he went to the stopped
long time and finally kehed frog and fetched him in and
you're ready him alongside Of Dsn1 with his psw
and him and the up frogs behind and
hoped of lively but Dan heave and hytsd his
planted solid church. and he couldn't stir than
hs anchored out Smiley was good deal surprised and ne was DIS
"hs Teller money when he going
out door, ekd his thumb his shouldersoa
an again. deliberate Well he don't see no pints
SMILEY +. stood scratching his looking Dan1
long do wonder what the nation that frog
nap ef the neck and hstsd says why don't
Ave pounds upside and he behed
double how and he the mad
set the down and took out after the fe but he never
You have noticed doubt that the majority Of Republican
pretty insurgent
By insurgency meant almost everybody knows by this tme
spirit Of PROGRESS that jump
up behind jumped from Cal
Norma Vermont
That isn't exactly accurate, either.
did it in two jumps-from California Michigan ey JuliusD
and from Michigan to Vermont
Well then s idea:
The politicians their eyes this insurgent frog
including Mr. DENLY had underestimate its
Jumping ability up until about last Wednesday morning
They any this other frog
NOW however signs scramble between this date and
the bandwagon.
AND WHAT TO DO IS TO WARN THE PEOPLE
10 BE CAREFUL IN WHOSE HANDS THEY LEAVE THEIR FROG.
Smiley you'd call chump for trusting his frog the
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people will be just big humps if they trust their in
rgncy public seeking reelection whose records would
indicate they said before last We'd
nesy morning that they didn't know what meant by Insurgency
These would hold the frog until after the