Jose Hernandez Ms.L English Honors 24 April 2018 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County In the short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain it talks about the narrator of the story is asked by a friend to find Simon Wheeler and ask about his friend’s friend, Leonidas W. Smiley. But instead giving the narrator the information he asked for he goes on to tell stories about a man named Jim Smiley. The story goes that Jim Smiley is a man that will bet on anything. One day he bet that his pet frog can out jump any other, he ends up losing the bet because the other man cheated. But in the end the narrator starts to get tired of the stories and tried to get rid of Wheeler before he goes in to another story.