Mark Twain’s “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” depicts a man from the East who is obviously duped into asking to another man, Simon Wheeler, to hear a story about the supposed John Smiley. This is bad for the Easterner because Wheeler could go on for hours about the curious antics of this Smiley fellow. The namesake part of the story comes when Wheeler tells the Easterner about the time when Smiley bet on a frog to out jump another frog in Calaveras County. However, the race was rigged by this other "feller," and Smiley finally lost one of his numerous bets (Twain 102 ). The fact that this cheating feller would fix a bet against a seemingly nice Southern gentleman such as Smiley, conveys a sort of realism in the story. This