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Mark Twain's Excerpt, The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of

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Mark Twain’s excerpt, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County tells the story of a man going to a town and speaking with a man named Simon Wheeler to ask about Leonidas Smiley. Instead of giving the man the information, Wheeler launches into a story about Jim Smiley, a man who would bet on anything and everything. He once bet with a stranger on his frog being the highest jumper in Calaveras County. When Smiley wasn’t looking, the stranger filled the highest jumping frog with quail shot. Smiley then lost the bet and the stranger ran off with the money before Smiley could catch him. This story shows Mark Twain’s prestigious ability to manipulate his transitions and vocabulary to present a beautiful and complex story. Twain’s usage of
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