A Private History of the 'Jumping Frog' Story Twain discusses a claim from a "Professor Van Dyke, of Princeton," that his "Jumping Frog" story was acutally thousands of years old and based on a Greek tale.  To discuss this, Twain presents several versions of the "Jumping Frog" story.  Twain also discuses the publication of the "Jumping Frog" in the <cite>Saturday Press</cite> and gives himself the "honor and credit" of "killing" the paper.