Twain, Mark. "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog." New York Saturday Press, November 18, 1865, 248-249.
Type
newspaper
Genre
short fiction
Abstract
Looking for information about a Rev. Smiley, the narrator instead gets a series of stories from a local about Jim Smiley. These include his jumping frog that gets weighed down before the competition, and an odd horse he used for racing.