The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

(by Mark Twain) (Jim Smiley loves to gamble and will offer to bet on anything and everything.) In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after my friend's friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to do, and …