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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 1425158, member: 4381&quot;]This is close enough</p><p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</p><p><br /></p><p>Jump to: navigation, search</p><p>1st edition (publ. C. H. Webb)</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County&quot; is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain, his first great success as a writer, bringing him national attention. The story has also been published as &quot;Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog&quot; (its original title) and &quot;The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County&quot;. In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. Twain describes him: &quot;If he even seen a straddle bug start to go anywheres, he is bet you how long it would take him to get to—to wherever he going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County&quot; is also the title story of an 1867 collection[1] of short stories by Mark Twain. Twain&#039;s first book, it collected 27 stories that were previously published in magazines and newspapers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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